Re: [Tracker] trackerd extremly slow

[Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

gebi wrote:
> hello
>
> indexing trackerd slows down.
> At the beginning the indexing is very fast but slows down to around
> 7min for extracting metadata for one ogg file.
> At the same time the cpu runs hot - from top:
>
>   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+
> COMMAND                                               
>                                                
> 14056 gebi      34  19  212m 166m 159m S 99.5 33.1 263:59.38 trackerd  

Hi,

Do you see the word polling appear in the log. I've noticed that tracker 
slows down a lot when it goes into polling mode (it only goes polling if 
you have more than 8000 directories with inotify or about 400 with FAM)

Its obviously a bug here so will fix shortly


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