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

["Aron Stansvik" <elvstone gmail com>]

On 4/24/06, Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk> wrote:
> Aron Stansvik wrote:
>
> > Okay, I think my directories are pretty moderately broad. I'm also
> > suspecting some file handle limit, but it's puzzling to not see any
> > "Too many open files" messages. I digged some into FreeBSD
> > documentation and found in tuning(7):
> >
> > "The kern.maxfiles sysctl determines how many open files the system sup-
> > ports.  The default is typically a few thousand but you may need to bump
> > this up to ten or twenty thousand if you are running databases or large
> > descriptor-heavy daemons.  The read-only kern.openfiles sysctl may be
> > interrogated to determine the current number of open files on the system."
> >
> > I shall do some investigation based on this information. I'll be back
> > with results/findings.
>
> as tracker does not seg fault I'm not sure gdb will help?
>
> I suggest valgrind though bear in mind it will run a lot slower in it.
>
> run it with :
> valgrind --tool=memcheck --num-callers=20 --track-fds=yes -v  trackerd
>
> it should at least show where file handles were opened and not closed
> and any other errors.

Okay. I might check it with valgrind.

Though now, with a more moderate number of files, tracker is
performing pretty well. The problem with the huge number of files gave
me a good reason to clean out my directory with old code cruft. I've
been meaning to do that for a long time. It decreased the number of
files drastically, and I have the files in SVN anyway so I don't need
them lying around in ~.

If I start having problems again I'll bring out valgrind/gdb for a run over.

BTW I tested with dbus activation too and it works fine.

Some day I might try to make a KDE interface of some sort.

Regards,
Aron