On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 12:23 +0100, Martyn Russell wrote: > Jamie McCracken wrote: > > Could we also reduce memory usage by not statically linking to the > > private libs libtracker-common and libtracker-db? > > Those libraries should not be available for public use. Before doing so, > each API would have to be: > > a) Documented > b) Checked it needs to be public > c) Versioned > d) ... > > This is a lot of work and I don't think it is worth it. > I haven't looked at the footprints myself though. > > > currently my FTS module and the file-indexer-module are ~ 1MB in size > > due mostly to linking with them and im sure the size of trackerd and > > tracker-indexer could be made smaller too with only one instance of > > those libs in memory > > How does the memory footprint compare to the old tracker? >
having looked at the contents of libtracker-common, most of the memory used is for the stemmers - we load them all into memory even though we only use one of them. i think making each language stemmer a dynamically loaded module should help reduce things jamie _______________________________________________ tracker-list mailing list tracker-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/tracker-list
