Re: Proposed module: tracker

[Sri Ramkrishna <sri aracnet com>]

You might also consider checking if power is plugged in state for
laptops.  So if they are plugged in it can probably do more IO and CPU
intensive operations.  Great original idea though.

sri

On Fri, 2007-01-12 at 13:45 +0000, Jamie McCracken wrote:
> Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro wrote:
> > 
> >   IMHO, an ideal indexing program would receive file add/modify/delete
> > notifications and record these notifications in a work queue for later
> > processing.  Then, when the user logs out or the screen is locked the
> > indexer starts processing the notifications, until the moment a user
> > logs in or screen is unlocked, at which time it stops.  That wouldn't
> > disturb me so much.  We we have utmp records for login/logout, and D-BUS
> > notifications for screen lock/unlock; this is doable, I'm sure.
> > 
> 
> yes we can do that - I also think if we make it as unobtrusive as 
> possible (even if it slows the rate of indexing quite a bit) then it 
> should be more acceptable.
> 
> we already have a --turbo command line option for doing indexing as fast 
> as possible for those that want that so maybe the default mode can just 
> spend more time sleeping and only intermittently index at a leisurely 
> pace. This should make it more comfortable to work with especially if 
> you have a noisy hard disk or noisy cpu fans.
> 
> anyway thanks for your thoughts...
> 
> 
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Sri Ramkrishna <sri aracnet com>