Halton Huo wrote: > Brian, > > MetaTracker is disabled by default. > I'm glad to see that, but on a Sun Ray administrator might want to disable it for all users of a particular server.
> On Fri, 2008-03-07 at 17:53 +0000, Brian Nitz wrote: > >> - Turn off tracker file indexing (This came into the builds before >> proper kernel file monitoring was available, so the fall back is a >> particularly inefficient file change polling mechanism.) >> > Tracker use gamin as file monitor, are you talking about it? What's the > problem you have? > It doesn't seem to be a problem in Solaris nevada build 82, but we've since turned off tracker on our server. On some vermillion builds between 79 and 82, tracker and gamin consumed quite a lot of CPU time and file I/O bandwidth. Dtrace showed gamin opening, reading and closing thousands of files during indexing and file monitoring after the install. > >> To disable: >> >> Select preferences->Sessions >> Uncheck all items containing the word "Tracker". >> >> If you want to disable tracker for everyone, remove these files: >> /etc/xdg/autostart/tracker >> > > _______________________________________________ > desktop-discuss mailing list > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org >
