Re: [Tracker] trackerd extremly slow

[Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:
> On 12/5/06, Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk> wrote:
> > 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
>
> I hope you received the ogg I sent you. Anyway, I don't think gebi's
> problem is related to polling because I bumped into a similar problem
> (see my correspondence on this list), and there wasn't polling. I
> regularly checked tracker.log and there's wasn't no polling taking
> place. I've however recently increased the number of my directories
> and noticed the polling thing, so I've experienced both problems.


Its also related to a memory leak which is now fixed in cvs. During 
indexing if trackerd uses more than 10MB then its a bug really! (it may 
temporarily use a bit more but should quickly revert to under 10)

anyways as I said polling is broken/slow so will be fixing that soonish

As for the ogg - no problem indexing.

running tracker-extract on it yields:

jamie DemonMachine:~ $ tracker-extract /home/jamie/02\ -\ Greame\ Smith\ 
-\ Minki\ go\ grrr.ogg audio/ogg

Audio.ReleaseDate=2005;
Audio.Album=Oh My Greatest Hits CD 1;
Audio.Channels=2;
Audio.TrackNo=2;
Audio.Artist=Whackhead Simpson;
Audio.Samplerate=44100;
Audio.Title=Greame Smith - Minki go grrr;
Audio.Bitrate=128000;
Audio.Codec=Vorbis;
Audio.Duration=193;


I can only presume you dont have the gstreamer plug-ins installed (good, 
bad and ugly sets) which may be causing you the problem?


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Mr Jamie McCracken
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