Re: [Tracker] [Re: tracker in F16]

2011-09-20 Thread Martyn Russell
On 19/09/11 20:06, Lennart Poettering wrote: Martyn, Jürg, Hello Lennart. There's a discussion going on on fedora-desktop about Tracker. To me it appears the main longstanding issues in Tracker have not been fixed (see attachment). Maybe you can comment on that? Yes. First of all, let me

Re: [Tracker] [Re: tracker in F16]

2011-09-20 Thread Aleksander Morgado
Hey Lennart, a) tracker uses inotify recursively and creates a massive number of watches due to that. That is both ugly and doesn't scale. Tracker apparently tries to not take up the full pool of inotfy handles the system provides, but that won't help if you have more than one user on

Re: [Tracker] [Re: tracker in F16]

2011-09-20 Thread Martyn Russell
On 20/09/11 09:49, Martyn Russell wrote: Recursive directory change timestamps have also been considered. That doesn't fix the issue for people that use USB keys or FAT file systems where you can't count on that (which is why we just reindex entire mount points recursively to make sure we get

Re: [Tracker] [Re: tracker in F16]

2011-09-20 Thread Aleksander Morgado
I beg your pardon, I just double checked this and there is also a tracker_file_is_locked() API which only the miner-fs uses in one instance. That is used when checking each file in our queue handler function: if (file queue != QUEUE_DELETED tracker_file_is_locked (file))

Re: [Tracker] [Re: tracker in F16]

2011-09-20 Thread Philip Van Hoof
On Tue, 2011-09-20 at 11:08 +0200, Aleksander Morgado wrote: I beg your pardon, I just double checked this and there is also a tracker_file_is_locked() API which only the miner-fs uses in one instance. That is used when checking each file in our queue handler function: if

[Tracker] Correct way to pause / throttle tracker

2011-09-20 Thread Rainer M Krug
Hi what is the correct way to pause / throttle tracker while doing other computations? Cheers, Rainer -- Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany) Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology Stellenbosch University South Africa Tel

Re: [Tracker] Correct way to pause / throttle tracker

2011-09-20 Thread Rainer M Krug
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 20/09/11 11:26, Martyn Russell wrote: On 20/09/11 10:14, Rainer M Krug wrote: Hi Hello, what is the correct way to pause / throttle tracker while doing other computations? You can pause with: tracker-control --miner Files

Re: [Tracker] [Re: tracker in F16]

2011-09-20 Thread Philip Van Hoof
On Tue, 2011-09-20 at 10:19 +0100, Martyn Russell wrote: On 20/09/11 10:11, Philip Van Hoof wrote: On Tue, 2011-09-20 at 11:08 +0200, Aleksander Morgado wrote: I beg your pardon, I just double checked this and there is also a tracker_file_is_locked() API which only the miner-fs uses in one

Re: [Tracker] [Re: tracker in F16]

2011-09-20 Thread Martyn Russell
On 20/09/11 12:45, Lennart Poettering wrote: On Tue, 20.09.11 09:49, Martyn Russell (mar...@lanedo.com) wrote: a) tracker uses inotify recursively and creates a massive number of watches due to that. That is both ugly and doesn't scale. Tracker apparently tries to not take up the full pool of

Re: [Tracker] ANNOUNCE: tracker 0.12.1 released (stable)

2011-09-20 Thread Michael Biebl
Hi Martyn! 2011/9/15 Martyn Russell mar...@lanedo.com: Changes:  * libtracker-miner: Export TrackerTask* and TrackerPriority* API for new unit tests I fixed this in a different way by using a private convenience library which the test suite can link against:

Re: [Tracker] ANNOUNCE: tracker 0.12.0 released (stable)

2011-09-20 Thread Michael Biebl
Congrats to the new release 2011/9/9 Martyn Russell mar...@lanedo.com: Where can I get it? ===   http://download.gnome.org/sources/tracker/0.12/ A few things I noticed: 1/ Starting tracker-needle or tracker-preferences from the command line, I get a lot of debug messages

Re: [Tracker] ANNOUNCE: tracker 0.12.0 released (stable)

2011-09-20 Thread Martyn Russell
On 20/09/11 16:54, Michael Biebl wrote: Congrats to the new release 2011/9/9 Martyn Russellmar...@lanedo.com: Where can I get it? === http://download.gnome.org/sources/tracker/0.12/ A few things I noticed: 1/ Starting tracker-needle or tracker-preferences from the

Re: [Tracker] ANNOUNCE: tracker 0.12.0 released (stable)

2011-09-20 Thread Michael Biebl
2011/9/20 Martyn Russell mar...@lanedo.com: On 20/09/11 16:54, Michael Biebl wrote: Congrats to the new release 2011/9/9 Martyn Russellmar...@lanedo.com: Where can I get it? ===   http://download.gnome.org/sources/tracker/0.12/ A few things I noticed: 1/ Starting

Re: [Tracker] [Re: tracker in F16]

2011-09-20 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Tue, 20.09.11 09:49, Martyn Russell (mar...@lanedo.com) wrote: a) tracker uses inotify recursively and creates a massive number of watches due to that. That is both ugly and doesn't scale. Tracker apparently tries to not take up the full pool of inotfy handles the system provides, but that