[Tracker] Polling problem in tracker svn

["jay langseth" <jaylangseth gmail com>]

Hello,

I run Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, which does not have an inotify-enabled kernel.  I run the Garnome GNOME distribution (2.16) which does include gamin.  Tracker SVN successfully builds with gamin support.  The problem is that trackerd is not even coming close to indexing all of my files.  I get a message "watch limit exceeded (if using inotify increase max_watches)" and then it still goes and finds some more directories, and then starts indexing.  But once it is done there are plenty of directories which I have told it to index which it does not actually get to.

The last release, Tracker-0.5.4, successfully indexes all of my files.  I compared the source code for trackerd.c between svn version and 0.5.4.  In 0.5.4 there is no error message about "watch limit exceeded" which can even be displayed, and there is all of this code there about "polling."  In svn some of the code related to "polling" is still there but most of it is gone.  Is this the reason tracker isn't getting to all of my files?  I'm quite a novice and don't know much about this stuff but "polling" seems to be what takes over when inotify isn't there, at least that's the impression I get when reading through the code.

Thanks,

Jason L.