Re: [Tracker] Cache size

[jamie <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

On Sun, 2007-08-26 at 14:18 +0100, Erlend Davidson wrote:
> Gonsolo wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > It should be possible to limit the size of the cache
> > under ~/.cache/tracker.
> > Mine is now 180MB which is way to much.
> Is the cache compressed in any way?  Would it be possible to do this 
> (e.g. LZW compression doesn't cause too much speed problem).  I'm not 
> sure, but there might be a hardware implementation of this algorithm for 
> embedded devices.


the full text stuff is zipped already

the index (word->hits blob) itself will not benefit from compression 


> One thing you could try Gonsolo, is running tracker-preferences:
> Go to "Performance", Indexing Limits (per file) and lower the numbers 
> (max amount of text and max unique words).
> Then go to "Ignored Files" and add some file extensions which you don't 
> want indexed (e.g. *.htm *.html).
>
> Jamie wrote:
> > the index is stored in the cache directory so cant be limited directly
> >   
> For tracker to be lightweight I think there should be some sort of size 
> limit possible - e.g. for small (possibly embedded) systems with 
> extremely limited storage.  Among other things it  would prevent a 
> possible bug (I'm sure there isn't one, but it could happen) from eating 
> up all the space in your home directory.


for embedded systems we will optimize it a lot more - both memory and
disk space would need to be kept to  a minimum


> Obviously a size limit (which doesn't simply involve a lossless 
> compression algorithm) means less data is being indexed... so in this 
> instance there would need to be a system where certain file types take 
> priority... probably user-customisable, e.g. e-mails first, then pdfs... 
> html last.  It would be quite a big job though - as it changes how the 
> indexer works.
>
> Erlend
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