Here are some of my ideas for Fedora 8 and Fedora 9

[Valent Turkovic]

On Tue, 2007-07-03 at 16:40 +0200, Alphonse Van Assche wrote:
> I you will see beagle slowdown your whole system. Just place some big
> pdf files in a directory and index it, you will see pdf2html or so
> take
> the whole CPU time and you Desktop entirely no usable without killing
> these processes. I was really happy to no have to yum remove \*beagle
> \*
> on F7. 

I tested it and here are the results:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8P_X8UK2fQ

You can see that pdf file of 5MB does start to use CPU at 100% but it
has high nice value so it doesn't slow down my desktop. 
I believe this is not a bug, but a feature :)