[Bug 64326] Re: beagled-helper loads CPU

[Joe Shaw]

Paul, answers to your questions. :)

(1) It's worth noting that the initial crawl happens whenever the beagle
daemon is started, not just when there is no index.  But what I'm saying
is that Beagle already never does that crawl on battery power if you
have the config setting set.  This feature was added in 0.2.8.

(2) If we can't check a few known files like /proc/acpi/ac_adapter,
beagle assumes you're on AC power.  (Because the altnerative is to
assume you're always on battery, which isn't the right thing either.)

(3) The main issue I have with this is that there isn't any real user
feedback.  Most users aren't monitoring their CPU usage, so I'm not sure
"boiling over" analogy works very well here.  Short bursts of CPU usage
are normal, but if the system feels unresponsive then we need to do some
fine tuning to our scheduler.  Pushing that decision off to the user
feels like the wrong thing to me.

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beagled-helper loads CPU
https://launchpad.net/bugs/64326