Re: [Tracker] more issues with indexer-split

[Philip Van Hoof <spam pvanhoof be>]

On Wed, 2008-09-03 at 15:31 +0100, Martyn Russell wrote:
> Jamie McCracken wrote:
> > trackerd should just pass directories at startup and let the indexer
> > work out what to process. Dbus is not optimised for passing large number
> > of strings. Can the current design easily accommodate this?
>
> DBus' optimisation is not an issue here. I can send ALL of my files over
> quicker than the indexer can mtime check ALL the directories in the
> database.

DBus only starts to perform bad as soon as message size grows over 4 kb
in size. In 4kb you can put quite a lot of uris.

Therefore I don't think we should focus on reducing the amount of uris
we send from the daemon to the indexer.

> Yes we can accommodate this. We simply send all files/directories to the
> indexer and the indexer can check each parent directory first then
> process the files or discard them if the parent directory mtime is up to
> date.


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