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Re: [Tracker] Any oustanding patches I have missed?
- From: "Tshepang Lekhonkhobe" <tshepang gmail com>
- To: jamie <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>
- Cc: Tracker-List <tracker-list gnome org>
- Subject: Re: [Tracker] Any oustanding patches I have missed?
- Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2007 10:09:10 +0200
On 7/4/07, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <tshepang gmail com> wrote:
On 7/1/07, jamie <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk> wrote:
> Speak up now!
>
> jamie.
You missed a patch adding an option to run trackerd in low memory mode
via the tracker.cfg. I currently don't have the facility to provide an
updated patch but please look at it.
This patch, for the README, should go with it. Please apply.
--
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floss-and-misc.blogspot.com
Index: README
===================================================================
--- README (revision 587)
+++ README (working copy)
@@ -223,19 +229,25 @@ if you dont want your entire home direct
You can disable indexing by passing --no-indexing
You can enable a low memory usage mode (recommended for machines with less
-than 256MB of RAM) by passing --enable-low-memory
+than 256MB of RAM) by passing --low-memory
You can artificially throttle indexing by passing --throttle=value where value
-is in the range 0-20 (with 0, the default, being fastest and 20 being slowest).
+is in the range 0-20 (with 0 being fastest and 20 being slowest).
Default is 0. You should only change this value if you want to prevent noisy
fans or hot laptops arising from cpu intensive indexing. Tracker should have a
negligible impact on the system (as it is scheduled) so you can safely work
with it on full throttle without experiencing slow downs.
You can specify directory roots to be excluded from being watched or indexed
-by passing -e directory for each directory root
+by passing -e directory for each directory root.
+
+You can specify logging verbosity by passing --verbosity. Valid values are
+from 0 to 3, ranging from least to most verbose respectively.
-All the above options (and more) can be set by editing ~/.Tracker/tracker.cfg
+Yet another option is --language which allows for specifying the language to
+use for stemmer and stop-words list.
+
+All the above options (and more) can be set by editing ~/.config/tracker.cfg
which is created with specific defaults when non-existent (EG when
trackerd is ran for the first time). Ensure that you restart trackerd for the
changes to take effect. tracker.cfg also provides options that allows tracker
@@ -247,6 +259,9 @@ EG:
WatchDirectoryRoots=directory1;directory2;directory3
+An additional option, introduced during the 0.6 development cycle, is the
+--reindex option which indexes user data from scratch, removing the need to
+remove Tracker database manually.
On the first run, Tracker will automatically create a new database and start
populating it with metadata by browsing through the user's home directory (or
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