Re: [Tracker] trackerd extremly slow

["Tshepang Lekhonkhobe" <tshepang gmail com>]

On 12/7/06, Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk> wrote:
> 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?

I have all those gst plugins. By the way, sometimes these oggs are
indexed, and sometimes not. Maybe the bug is on those, which are in
Debian...