Re: [Tracker] trackerd's disk access slows down system

[Tassilo Horn <tassilo member fsf org>]

jamie <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk> writes:

Hi Jamie,

> we are working on improving this dramatically by replacing our current
> indexer backend (qdbm) with the latest sqlite. QDBM suffers from
> massive fragmentation when indexing many GBs of text/source code as we
> only optimise after initial indexing has finished (we really should
> optimize the index more frequently but sqlite is non-fragmenting so
> wont bloat up like qdbm does nor will it require any optimizing)

Good to hear that.

> In the meantime, for best results it is wise to use our crawl
> directory facility with source code such that it indexes them without
> slowing down your compiling or check out

Indeed, that seems to do the trick.  Thanks a lot!

Bye,
Tassilo