Re: [Tracker] Tracker -.0.6.3 version needs testing prior to release

[jamie <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

On Sun, 2007-09-23 at 19:18 +0200, Laurent Aguerreche wrote:

> > 2) keep an eye on memory usage - there may be a few leaks but it should
> > plateau around 30mb
>
> I did not do a reindex but let trackerd do it automatically and now it
> uses ~ 67Mo :-/
> Oops, now it is 180Mo! I will try a test with GProf...

yeah thats excessive - memory leaks need plugging. 

I will valgrind soon...

btw was that without kmail? 


> > 3) after index test making changes to files and moving stuff around
> >
> > 4) do source checkouts so that lots of files are overwritten in one go
> > and pay attention to speed/slowdown of system
> >
> > 5) create lots of new files and make sure its fast and new results show
> > up
> >
> >
> > pls also run with -f in gdb ss thta you can get me backtraces for
> > non-crash errors (as well as crashed ones!)
>
> I found one...
>
> I have a file with a very big line (see attachment -- found in Ogre3D
> source code) which makes trackerd crash around line 2890
> (tracker_error() called due to value of "end") in tracker-db-sqlite.c
> because no carriage-return is found in the buffer...

bloody hell!

I cant believe people code like that!

anyway it a valid error which cannot be fixed and is not a crasher (-f
option forces errors to crash/abort)


> > if all goes well I will release tomorrow...
>
> Some weeks ago I talked about some stop-words like "hello" that are not
> found anymore. Is it possible to fix that?

yes - see
http://svn.gnome.org/viewcvs/tracker/trunk/data/languages/stopwords.en?view=markup

let me know which words you want to remove before you change that (I
guess hello can go)

jamie