Re: [Tracker] more issues with indexer-split

[Martyn Russell <martyn imendio com>]

Jamie McCracken wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 12:23 +0100, Martyn Russell wrote:
> > Jamie McCracken wrote:
> > > Could we also reduce memory usage by not statically linking to the
> > > private libs libtracker-common and libtracker-db?
> > Those libraries should not be available for public use. Before doing so,
> > each API would have to be:
> >
> > a) Documented
> > b) Checked it needs to be public
> > c) Versioned
> > d) ...
> >
> > This is a lot of work and I don't think it is worth it.
> > I haven't looked at the footprints myself though.
> >
> > > currently my FTS module and the file-indexer-module are ~ 1MB in size
> > > due mostly to linking with them and im sure the size of trackerd and
> > > tracker-indexer could be made smaller too with only one instance of
> > > those libs in memory
> > How does the memory footprint compare to the old tracker?
>
> having looked at the contents of libtracker-common, most of the memory
> used is for the stemmers - we load them all into memory even though we
> only use one of them. i think making each language stemmer a dynamically
> loaded module should help reduce things

I can look into doing this.

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Regards,
Martyn