On Sun, 2009-02-15 at 10:09 -0600, Kevin Dupuy wrote:
Is there something wrong with mine or should I file a bug report?
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.
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.
In OpenSUSE 10.x I always just un-installed it because it really was crap but I'm trying not to do that this time because I believe in the concept of "desktop search" and if it ever works properly it could be very useful. One of the first packages I tend to install on SUSE is findutils-locate which I use often so at least in theory, desktop search should be better.
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. 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 ;) Regards, -- John Lange www.johnlange.ca -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org