KDE Lands More Power Management Tuning, Behaves Better On Btrfs File-Systems

[phoronix]

Phoronix: KDE Lands More Power Management Tuning, Behaves Better On Btrfs File-Systems

KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his newest weekly development summary as the developers work toward releasing Plasma 6.0 in February...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-PM-And-Btrfs

[RAINFIRE]

[- When KDE Plasma is running within a virtual machine (VM), it now disables auto-suspend since that can sometimes cause the VM to hang.

- The hybrid sleep mode is now properly working under KDE with Plasma 5.27.8.

Fricking YAY! to disabling auto-suspend in VM's. It still to this day works so badly much of the time unless you like being a tweak guru. Lock the dang machine before you step away imho. I don't know why the seem to get it mostly right on laptops but not desktops?

[Hans Bull]

Glad for any baloo improvement. It's kde's weak point, also due to a bad choice of the db backend.

[timofonic]

Glad for any baloo improvement. It's kde's weak point, also due to a bad choice of the db backend.

Baloo sucks, it makes the system a lot slower. I *ALWAYS* disable it!

[piorunz]

Same, I never use Baloo because it's just trashing all hard drives non-stop. Useless.

[archkde]

Glad for any baloo improvement. It's kde's weak point, also due to a bad choice of the db backend.

Would you care to elaborate? I think in uses LMDB, which is a very reasonable choice for a key-value store.

[skeevy420]

Would you care to elaborate? I think in uses LMDB, which is a very reasonable choice for a key-value store.

From the KDE Wiki:

Baloo concentrates heavily on files, and provides both a data store and search store for files. These are stored using a combination of sqlite and xapian.

Jeez, I need to edit that page to fix a pet peeve -- just because the word "and" is there doesn't mean a comma is needed.

EDIT: I feel the need to edit this post and point out that the KDE Wiki is incorrect there. While I don't mind fixing punctuation issues, which I did, I don't feel comfortable changing technical information without knowing how to read the code.

[archkde]

From the KDE Wiki:
These are stored using a combination of sqlite and xapian.

That's bullshit, it's not linked against any of those.

[skeevy420]

That's bullshit, it's not linked against any of those.

The page does say "Information may be obsolete" before the link to Baloo/Architecture. The Arch package has "lmdb" as a dependency.

[Hans Bull]

Would you care to elaborate? I think in uses LMDB, which is a very reasonable choice for a key-value store.

This one gives some insight: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=404057#c8