Re: [Tracker] turbo vs. normal mode

[Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:
> Hi,
> What's the difference between normal and turbo indexing?
> What's the disadvantage of using turbo mode, especially considering
> that both are set at the same nice level?


normal mode peridically calls fsync so data is written to disk more 
often (this slows down tracker but prevents system pauses in other apps)

turbo turns fsync off so all writes to disk are scheduled by the kernel. 
This is a lot faster but may cause the odd system pause if you are 
indexing a lot of data.

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