Re: [Tracker] Releasing Tracker 0.6.90

[Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <tshepang gmail com>]

On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 3:57 AM, Jamie McCracken
<jamie mccrack googlemail com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 09:46 +0000, Martyn Russell wrote:
> > Jamie McCracken wrote:
> > > > But just when I was happy about one issue being fixed, I noticed that
> > > > performance on removal is awful again:
> > > > Unpacking linux-2.6.28.tar.bz2 in $HOME takes tracker (r2862) around
> > > > 20 minutes to index.
> > > > When I rm -rf linux-2.6.28/, it takes over an hour, with my cpu
> > > > constantly busy (i.e. max speed at 100%) :-/
> > >
> > > yeah thats something that needs investigation prior to release - thanks
> > > for spotting it
> >
> > Carlos is looking into this right now.
> >
> > As it stands, we will be releasing next week unless there are other
> > issues noticed before then that need addressing.
>
> In addition to deletion of folders :
>
> Other issues: (* mean must fix prior to release)
>
> 1*) directory crawling is too cpu intensive and eats too much memory
> compared to 0.6.6. Old  version did not queue up thousands of files but
> instead queued up directories where mtime indicated it needed updating.
> So memory wise only all directoires (and subdirectories) path were held
> in memory.
>
>
> 2*) Moving a file into another directory caused the file to no longer be
> searchable. Also when renaming a directory a search on the new name only
> finds the changed directory name but none of its files or subfolders.
> Tracker should always return a hit if part of the path of a file
> matches! (as per 0.6.6)
>
> 3*) TST still shows email category twice - Im not sure of cause but i am
> investigating this one
>
> 4*) Disk Io still quite heavy - searching in TST can time out dbus wise
> during indexing. It tries to pause the indexer but takes several minutes
> - i dont suppose there is much we can do here? If not suggest upping
> default throttle levels to minimize the occurance of this
>
> 5) Applet takes a long time to update its status if started after
> trackerd.
>
> jamie

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