[Nepomuk] On-battery indexing

[Vishesh Handa]

On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 3:54 PM, Ivan Čukić <ivan.cukic at kde.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> A user comment from my blog:
>
> > I have a question, though: Does it automatically re-index or update the
> index, when I
> > add a Tag or Comment? I think it should also watch for those
> user-generated changes
> > on battery. When I download another script PDF, it does not find them
> because on
> > battery the indexer is offline.
>
> Could we do a limited indexing (a few files here and there, not entire
> filesystems) when the user is on battery without much impact on
> battery?
>

Yup. It is possible.

And in fact it wouldn't be too hard to implement.

Right now we have a kind of priority queue where files and folders and
queued. Routine scanning and indexing of files are given a lower priority
than files that are added by inotify. So, we just need to make sure that
only files with this higher priority are indexed when the indexer is
suspended.


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