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[Sloan <joe@xxxxxxxxxx>]

M Harris wrote:
> On Monday 17 December 2007 12:22, Sloan wrote:
>   
> > It would be great if the beagle devs could take a page from
> > the boinc playbook, and only use CPU when it is not being used by other
> > apps.
> >     
>    You mean like the windoze devs...?
>   
Nope, I mean the boinc devs - windoze is not a worthy role model.

>    cpu timeslice should *never* be in the hands of app developers. 

Who said anything about cpu timeslice? we're talking pure userland here.

> The kernel 
> schedules the cpu, and timeslice....  not app devs.  (windoze never mind)
>   

It's defintely in the hands of the app, in the sense that the app can
*not* demand resources.
>    However, a sysadmin can adjust the cpu timeslice for beagle, or any other 
> cpu intensive app, so that they crawl along happily in the background. The 
> apps under such control take longer to complete of course... but in the case 
> of massive indexing like beagle --who cares? 
>   
The problem is,  Aunt Martha should not have to wrestle with that. There
should be a sane default setting.

Joe

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