Re: [Tracker] About "Linux Kernel file notification" support

[jamie <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

On Sun, 2007-07-15 at 12:28 -0400, Jeff wrote:
> > we do currently delay dir scan for 5 secs at startup so as not to slow
> > boot time
> Just curious, did you benchmark that with an average gnome desktop
> setup? I mean, if you add openoffice's quickstart and tomboy to the
> login process, it can easily take 20+ seconds to login (and maybe more
> than 30 if you add the deskbar-applet). 
>
> In that case, I would guess that a 5 seconds delay for trackerd would
> not be enough. Something like 10-20 seconds of delay might reduce the
> risks (of meddling with the login process) further. What do you think?
>
> (disclaimer: I have not done scientific benchmarks on this, just
> remembering my average login times. I'm also far from being a
> performance expert)


we plan on increasing it to 30 secs default with an override in the cfg
file and tracker-preferences so it can be fine tuned

remember trackerd is running at nice +19 and on linux with low priority
disk reads so it should not have a enormous effect at start up anyhow 

jamie