Re: [Tracker] Huge cache size

[jamie <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 17:43 -0400, Yoichi Aso wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I just installed tracker to my Fedora 7 desktop and the indexing seems to have almost finished.
> Then I found that the cache files are huge.
> Here is the result of "ls -lh" in ~/.cache/tracker/
>
> -rw------- 1 aso aso  12K 2007-10-24 17:56 email-contents.db
> -rw------- 1 aso aso 1.2M 2007-10-24 17:56 email-index.db
> -rw------- 1 aso aso  96K 2007-10-24 17:56 email-meta.db
> -rw------- 1 aso aso 167M 2007-10-25 16:03 file-contents.db
> -rw------- 1 aso aso 1.4G 2007-10-25 17:26 file-index.db
> -rw------- 1 aso aso  13M 2007-10-24 21:31 file-index.tmp.1
> -rw------- 1 aso aso  12M 2007-10-24 21:32 file-index.tmp.2
> -rw------- 1 aso aso  12M 2007-10-24 21:43 file-index.tmp.3
> -rw------- 1 aso aso  14M 2007-10-24 22:01 file-index.tmp.4
> -rw------- 1 aso aso  14M 2007-10-25 12:51 file-index.tmp.5
> -rw------- 1 aso aso 4.5G 2007-10-25 17:28 file-meta.db
> -rw------- 1 aso aso 304K 2007-10-25 17:28 file-meta.db-journal
> -rw------- 1 aso aso 1.2M 2007-10-25 17:26 file-update-index.db
>
> The total is 6.1GB.
> My home directory contains about 24GB of data (text files, pdf, OpenOffice documents, jpg, mp3, etc.)
> Can someone tell me if this is normal ?
>
> I used google desktop and beagle in the past on the same machine.
> The google desktop cache was about 858MB.
> The beagle cache was about 880MB.
> These values are after the initial indexing has been finished.
>
> If this cache size is abnormal for tracker (I hope it is the case), I will delete the cache and let tracker 
> re-index the entire home directory.
> The version of tracker I'm using is 0.6.3 (installed from Fedora 7 yum repository).

it is very abnormal

file-meta.db alone is too big - you would need over a million files for
it to surpass 1GB (assuming average of 1kb of metadata per file)

pls do following:

killall -9 trackerd

trackerd --reindex

can you let us know the final size when it has finished reindexing

jamie