2 big points to bring up here. 1) Please see if you can't get a version of 0.2.14 somewhere, overall its nicer on the CPU/Ram then previous releases.
2) A big part of what were seeing here is a behavioral thing. Beagle is programmed to stay quite and throttle itself heavily when the user is active at the computer. However, once the screensaver activates, beagle opens up and is far less frugal with system resources. Now, some balk at this idea, however, its completes indexing _much_ faster and happens when the computer is not in use. However, at compile time, if the --disable-xss flag is passed, then beagle will not notice when the computer is idle and will always be conservative. Personally, I would rather let it go all out when I'm not using the computer, but thats one opinion. It's very unlikely upstream is going to change this behaviour, but if ubuntu really wants, they can compile beagle with the --disable-xss flag, however, Im afraid that were gonna end up with people complaining beagle takes far to long to index (especially things like mail) -- 100% cpu load after 5' of inactivity https://launchpad.net/bugs/77106 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
