Re: [Tracker] more issues with indexer-split

[Jamie McCracken <jamie mccrack googlemail com>]

On Wed, 2008-09-03 at 16:35 +0200, Philip Van Hoof wrote:
> 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.

ok but lets see how it performs first

I want startup of a previously indexed machine to be as good or close to
trunk

jamie