John: Beagle already tries to set itself to the idle scheduling class (which always fails, because it requires root), and falls back to setting its priority within the default "best effort" class to the lowest setting. Beagle also uses fadvise to preload and flush the buffer cache of the files it reads. Beagle should be *very* well behaved in terms of IO.
Starting in version 0.2.12 or 0.2.13 -- I don't remember which -- we also set the nice level of the helper process (which does the actual indexing) to +15, so in the cases where it does use the CPU (mostly normal cases, while indexing) it shouldn't affect things like watching movies, playing music, etc. -- beagled-helper loads CPU https://launchpad.net/bugs/64326 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
