Re: Question on scrollkeeper-update

[Rémi Cohen-Scali <Remi Cohen-Scali com>]

actually it does. have a look at its sources.
scrollkeeper-0.2/cl/src/install.c
Perhaps you can't see disk access is because the bigger work is done on
some dom trees. Disk access are only made when reading & writing xml
files (at start & at end ???).
To have a better understanding have a look at sources. This chunk of
code comes from Sun.

le ven 18-01-2002 à 02:28, Chris Chabot a écrit :
> Yes yes, that makes perfect sence. However, i would presume that 
> building a database would require disk, memory or CPU activity. And non 
> of this is the case for about 20 + seconds. Its just sitting idle.
> 
> Thats the part im realy wondering about ;-)
> 
> Rémi Cohen-Scali wrote:
> 
> >Build its metadata base to be able to work. It needs to update these
> >data because some new docs are installed
> >
> >le ven 18-01-2002 à 01:45, Chris Chabot a écrit :
> >
> >>At the end of the gnome-core (1.5.4) compile, it runs
> >>
> >>    scrollkeeper-update -p /var/lib/scrollkeeper
> >>
> >>This process takes longer then it takes some packes to compile (on my 
> >>compile box anyways), and seems to do no heavy disk IO (according to 
> >>vmstat and 'the human ear listening to the HDs'), and CPU usage is near 0.
> >>
> >>What is it doing, and why is it taking so long?
> >>
> >>    -- Chris
> >>
> >>_______________________________________________
> >>desktop-devel-list mailing list
> >>desktop-devel-list gnome org
> >>http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
> >>
> 
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> desktop-devel-list mailing list
> desktop-devel-list gnome org
> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
-- 
                                                          -o)
                   Remi Cohen-Scali                       /\\
<Remi Cohen-Scali com>          <rcoscali rcsnet net>    _\_v
                                                         ----