Chris Fanning wrote: > Hi, Hi :)
> I'm new on the list. > I'd like to know if what I'm planning with tracker is possible or what > might be the way to get what I want working. > > I have a small cluster that serves ubuntu desktops to users via > freenx. I would like to make tracker-search-tool available to the > users. > But I'm not sure how to do it. I've read quite often on the net about > tracker running wild or using lots of system resources. > This is something I must avoid because on each node there can be up to > 15 concurrent users. > So I thought I could set up a server solely dedicated to indexing > files. This index_server (lenny?) could import users homes via NFS. > I could then write some kind of script that runs something like for each user: > su - uid > dbus-launch trackerd > > Then back on the node the user would run > trackerd --no-indexing > > Would this work? It should do. > What will happen when the nodes and the index_server > are running different versions of tracker? We have a database version file which is checked for this. Right now it will reindex if the version is older than the current version installed. Of course, if you pass --no-index, it will reset everything and have no data until you run trackerd normally. > Might there be another way to deal with this scenario? Well, this situation is a little untested. We have mechanisms in place to try to work round this. -- Regards, Martyn _______________________________________________ tracker-list mailing list tracker-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/tracker-list
