Re: [Tracker] Things that currently sux with tracker

2006-10-12 Thread Marcus Fritzsch
Hi Jamie, On 10/12/06, Jamie McCracken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've noticed when indexing *large* amounts of data that a lot of disk > thrashing is taking place which is greatly slowing down performance of > both tracker and the system in general. > > Also the nice +10 is not throttling enoug

Re: [Tracker] Things that currently sux with tracker

2006-10-12 Thread Jamie McCracken
Anders Aagaard wrote: > > Why not hold back updates, but force flush to disk if a search is called? it would be too slow I guess (assuming 1000's of files cached up and could cause a bus timeout for the search). We would only hold back updates for new files - existing files would be indexed st

Re: [Tracker] Things that currently sux with tracker

2006-10-12 Thread Anders Aagaard
Jamie McCracken wrote: > I've noticed when indexing *large* amounts of data that a lot of disk > thrashing is taking place which is greatly slowing down performance of > both tracker and the system in general. > > Also the nice +10 is not throttling enough (I dont have ionice in my > kernel so

[Tracker] Things that currently sux with tracker

2006-10-12 Thread Jamie McCracken
I've noticed when indexing *large* amounts of data that a lot of disk thrashing is taking place which is greatly slowing down performance of both tracker and the system in general. Also the nice +10 is not throttling enough (I dont have ionice in my kernel so I dont know how good a job that doe