Re: [SLE] how beagled is scheduled to run?

Hello. I have an X terminal server ... as perhaps everybody already
knows because I keep asking stupid questions... Sometimes beagled and
its related process (e.g. parse-metadata) suddenly come up and take
everybody by surprise by taking 100% CPU resource and slowing everything
down.

Desktop search has penalties. Just sort your files properly and you don't
need it :)

This keeps 10 minutes and everybody decide to get a coffee.
Usually every user's beagled process start together.

What I didn't find on google is how to change
scheduling

`ionice` command and syscall.

Besides, removing beagle completely from cron is stupid, because beagle
is useful, it simply decided to work in wrong time.

Given that it runs _a long time_ (even longer than updatedb), it may happen
that it always runs at the wrong time.

Best approach: how about SuSE design it in this way? That "beagled only
starts if load average in the past 10 minute is lower then 0.5
(configurable)". This gives beagled a smart brain, it can even start
itself in launch time when noticed nobody used the desktop for a while.

As for me, beagle should only be run if the user explicitly allowed it. So
much for starting beagle 15 minutes after the initial install just
completed.


Jan Engelhardt
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