Re: [Tracker] Polling problem in tracker svn

[jamie <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

On Fri, 2007-04-06 at 11:20 -0400, jay langseth wrote:
> 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. 

hi,

we disabled the polling code as it was causing performance issues

the way it now works is it will update in real time only those folders
which are watched. All other non-watched folders will be updated when
you next restart tracker.

The code is not well tested yet so I will play with it a bit more and
see if there are any issues

thanks for the feedback.

jamie.