Re: Systemd status for rygel service

[Jens Georg <mail jensge org>]

On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 02:09:26PM +0100, John Obaterspok wrote:
> 2016-02-19 13:29 GMT+01:00 Jens Georg <mail jensge org>:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm starting rygel without an initial database and it seems to take many
> > hours to initialize the database (I believe it used to be much faster).
> >
> >
> > Do you have numbers? With the addition of mx-extract, it is supposed to be
> > a bit slower because it runs with nice level 19, but hours sounds a bit
> > off. How much data are we talking about
> I have something like 50 000 images. It seems to spawn a new process for
> each?

Images have always been slow, especially if they are very large. It should
spawn a process for every uri in the config, if it spawns more then it has
probably crashed.

> > Anyway, it would be nice if the current status could be shown using
> > sd_notify()
> > Like "Status: Creating initial database 10% complete" or "Status: Serving
> > 3 files, last xxxxx.mpg"
> >
> >
> > First one can't really, because Rygel has no idea on how much data it has
> > to index. Second one could be done. Mind filing an enhancement bug so it
> > doesn't get lost?
>
> Would it work if it checked how many directories there are and then show %
> for how many dirs are scanned?

Yes, but that's the two treewalks which I would like to avoid here.

Anyway, please file an enhancement bug for this.