Re: [Tracker] First time user on FreeBSD with some troubles

[Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

Aron Stansvik wrote:
> On 4/23/06, Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk> wrote:
> > The output of stdout shows that no indexing took place - indexing is
> > slow the first time you index as we queue up files to be indexed before
> > actually doing the indexing.
>
> I see. I thought that there was very little disk activity. Tracker
> can't be _that_ efficient :)
>
> > It might be worth waiting an hour or so after running trackerd before
> > doing a search that should give it enough time to get going.
>
> Okay. I'll take this as a good opportunity to get some sleep. I'll let
> trackerd sit over night and if no indexing has occured tomorrow, I can
> be definately sure that there's an actual problem.
>
> > You will see messages like "indexing file /home/jamie/media.mp3" being
> > printed to stdout when it is indexing.
>
> Ah. Okay. I was just on my way to browse the source to see what I
> "should" be seeing.
>
> > The timeout is likely caused by the main thread blocking on something
> > and therefore not responding in time (im not sure what the default
> > timeout period is for Dbus). I should improve this.
>
> Okay. We'll see how this waiting goes.
>
> Thanks and good night for now.
>
> Aron


A quicker method would be to pass a path to a directory with a few files 
in it to trackerd to index (eg trackerd /home/jamie/test). Indexing 
should start in under a second in that case.


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Mr Jamie McCracken
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