SUMMARY Baloo's content indexing mode significantly impairs battery life, making KDE look way more energy hungry than it should be. This is because Baloo goes full throttle regardless of whether the computer is on AC power or battery (either laptop or UPS battery). This behavior is not good for energy conservation and extending the battery life. Please consider changing Baloo to be responsive to power source modes and power profiles. OBSERVED RESULT Baloo does content indexing on battery power, reducing battery life significantly. EXPECTED RESULT Baloo should restrict to basic indexing when on battery to conserve power and backfill with context indexing when on AC power. Perhaps on systems with a mix of performance and efficiency cores (Intel and ARM CPUs when available), Baloo could pin itself to efficiency cores to significantly reduce energy usage while doing full indexing. Baloo should also switch to basic indexing when the power saver power profile is used. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Linux/KDE Plasma: Fedora Linux 38 (KDE Plasma) (available in About System) KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.6 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.108.0 Qt Version: 5.15.10 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Arch Asahi disables content indexing to conserve energy on battery mode, and we're contemplating pulling this over to Fedora Asahi Remix if there's no fix in sight.
Baloo doesn't index at all while on battery though: $ balooctl status Baloo File Indexer is running Indexer state: Idle (Powersave) Are you seeing something different?
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This bug has been in NEEDSINFO status with no change for at least 30 days. The bug is now closed as RESOLVED > WORKSFORME due to lack of needed information. For more information about our bug triaging procedures please read the wiki located here: https://community.kde.org/Guidelines_and_HOWTOs/Bug_triaging Thank you for helping us make KDE software even better for everyone!