Re: [Tracker] more issues with indexer-split

[Jamie McCracken <jamie mccrack googlemail com>]

On Fri, 2008-09-12 at 18:35 +0100, Martyn Russell wrote:
> Jamie McCracken wrote:
> > On Fri, 2008-09-12 at 10:27 +0100, Martyn Russell wrote:
> > I know but it just outputs the above continuously with no change in the
> > indexed count
> >
> > and it does not flush to index which means I cant search for anything
>
> Flushing doesn't happen when the status message is printed. It is done
> once a minute as I recall. Also, you can't use the index until the index
> is closed by the indexer (which is usually when it finishes OR I *think*
> when a request comes in to the daemon).
>
> > > > > note I have evol email indexing disabled
> > > How have you disabled that?
> >
> > tracker.cfg file in~/ .config/tracker- I set
> > IndexEvolutionEmails=false
> >
> > Note that existing config options must be respected as otherwise
> > upgrading will be impossible for existing users
>
> This option is not honoured then. I do it one of 2 ways right now. Either:
>
> 1. trackerd -d evolution
> 2. DisabledModules=evolution;
>
> The IndexEvolutionEmails option must have been overlooked.
> Can I ask, have you tried removing your config file too?

no because it needs to work with existing settings

> I will look into working on an upgrade path to fix this on Monday.

ok - I will be travelling monday to UK - I will try and check again on
tuesday


> > > Are you able to try on another machine?
> >
> > nope 
>
> Well, I have tried in 2 different locations and Phillip has tried to
> reproduce your issues too. It works for us :/
>
> > > > also can you confirm if tracker-search-tool crashes trackerd when you
> > > > supply a search term that does not exist in the index?
> > > Test that and with a word similar to another it suggests something
> > > (which shows results when I click on it) and with something completely
> > > incomprehensible it just says it couldn't find anything. I don't get any
> > > crashes.
> > >
> > > I have asked Phillip to do the same too to make sure it isn't something
> > > I am doing. I have a feeling it might be the content you are indexing.
> > >
> > > Does it crash for you if you index a small selection of files? If you
> > > could try a couple of places with only a few files in a directory that
> > > would really help us identify if it was content based or not.
> >
> > will play some more but index file size indicate sits empty so no flushing has occurred
>
> Email is a special case, it isn't a 1 file = 1 index increment because
> there are parts of emails which can be considered unique units to index.
> Other than that I have noticed this and we can improve on it.
>
> Which file are you checking for indexed words?

all of them - i just my name "jamie" to search as it should match all
files as they are in path /home/jamie


jamie