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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org