On Sun, 2010-05-02 at 22:11 -0400, Calvin Walton wrote: > Hi all, > > As a bit of an experiment, after installing tracker 0.8.4, I decided to > try deleting all of its data files, journal, config, etc. in order to > see how a fresh install and index would run. > > Admittedly I have a bit of a pathological case; my home directory has > approximately 2.7 TiB of data, including both a collection of large > media files (video and music) mixed with small development files (git > clones of a large portion of gnome, the linux kernel, etc.) > > I've left the indexer processes running for about 24 hours now, and it > has reached 83% complete. But I'm a bit worried about the memory usage: > > In the GNOME System Monitor, tracker-store is currently reported as > using 9.9 GB of memory.
We recently found a memory leak. Can you retry your experiments using the most recent commit in master? Also, please give us what cat /proc/`pidof tracker-store`/status | grep VmRSS gives you. GNOME System Monitor isn't really a very accurate tool for this (although +9GB sure sounds bad still). [cut] -- Philip Van Hoof freelance software developer Codeminded BVBA - http://codeminded.be _______________________________________________ tracker-list mailing list tracker-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/tracker-list
