Resource consumption for indexing user data, especially files and mails

[Cornelius Schumacher]

Hi Martin,

thanks for your detailed email about the issues you observe with 
resource consumption in the context of Akonadi and file indexing.

The measurement procedures I described in my talk only measure total 
resource usage of the overall system. They don't try to tie it to 
specific processes or differentiate between the application itself and 
any background services. They do measure different usage profile with 
the application running through a realistic usage scenario, a scenario 
where the application is idling, and a baseline with the application not 
installed or running.

It would be interesting to do measurements comparing different settings 
to the degree that's technically feasible. So comparing energy 
consumption with indexing enabled and disabled would show the difference 
and also give a number how big the part of indexing is in the overall 
energy consumption.

A tricky part might be to get background processes controlled in a way 
to get reproducible measurements.

Of course some things are pretty obvious and can be seen by heavy load 
of the system, also without exact measurement, so improving on this fron 
would certainly be a worthwhile effort.

Kind Regards,
Cornelius

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Cornelius Schumacher <schumacher at kde.org>