Bug 453968

Summary:	Baloo should watch thermal data
Product:	[Frameworks and Libraries] frameworks-baloo	Reporter:	Sergio <sergio.callegari>
Component:	general	Assignee:	baloo-bugs-null
Status:	RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	nate, stefan.bruens, tagwerk19
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	5.93.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Sergio 2022-05-18 06:36:09 UTC

SUMMARY

Baloo currently does a decent job at not hindering the machine ability to quickly perform other tasks by running when other tasks don't need resources.  Still this could be very much improved by also looking at the thermal situation of the machine.

Baloo should avoid making the machine temperature rise high enough to make the fans spin loudly (let the laptop remain silent, please) and, even worse get the cpu in thermal throttling.

Comment 1 tagwerk19 2022-07-21 10:20:51 UTC

See also...

    ... Baloo Read Throughput was 500Mbps up to 1Gbps, this is not bad, but SSDs tend to
    overheat easily on sustained reads/writes, and Baloo was doing this for a long time ...

    https://old.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/w49vko/advice_be_careful_when_adding_tons_of_files_or/

Comment 2 Stefan Brüns 2023-07-07 17:16:10 UTC

Won´t do.

1. There are other programs which cause even higher CPU load, also not considering system temperature.
2. "High Temperature" is subjective.  Fan speeds are not universally available. Some systems will have Fans always running (slowly), while others stop Fans completely.