Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2576 mails)

["Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On Tuesday, 2009-02-17 at 16:16 -0600, John Lange wrote:

> > What are your system specs? If you have a reasonably new system, Beagle
> > should be running OK. You definitely shouldn't be getting system
> > slowdowns from Beagle on modern hardware.
>
> I never said anything about system slowdowns and yes this is modern
> hardware; an HP 8510p laptop (2Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo).
>
> The problem is it runs when the machine is idle, burns high CPU causing
> the system fans to come on and isn't doing anything (which is obvious
> since the disk isn't turning so it can't be indexing).
>
> As soon as I move the mouse or touch the keyboard it stops so it doesn't
> cause any problems when I'm actually using the system.

It's probably a bug in one of the backends, hanging on some file - like 
the next comment said:

> > The Beagle indexer could be getting caught up on a file. Proprietary
> > files, like Word docs, etc. tend to do this the most. I know this was a
> > problem in the early days of Beagle in SUSE but I'm not sure if it's
> > much of an issue anymore.
...
> > The Beagle Project has a page that you can look at about these issues:
> > http://beagle-project.org/Troubleshooting_CPU
>
> I may send it a signal and see if it logs anything useful.

It might be problematic to do it, as if you touch a key it will stop :-?

> If nothing else, I learned from this thread that people have strong
> feelings about beagle.... wow.. I had no idea it was _that_ touchy a
> subject ;)

:-)

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Cheers,
       Carlos E. R.

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