Re: [Tracker] initial indexing doesn't finish

[Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <tshepang gmail com>]

On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Martyn Russell <martyn imendio com> wrote:
> Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 12:18 PM, Martyn Russell <martyn imendio com>
> > wrote:
> > > Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > That problem that Biebl once pointed out still occurs, did anyone
> > > > notice...
> > >
> > > WORKSFORME.
> > >
> > > What does tracker-status say?
> > > What tells you that it didn't finish?
> >
> > After initial indexing run, the indexer and daemon tell me that
> > indexing is finito and when I restart I find that more items are
> > indexed. I index the whole /usr and /home by the way. Maybe your test
> > dataset is far smaller.
>
> OK. Tracker does crawl everything and check all content is up-to-date in the
> database *every time* it is started. If we didn't do this, between restarts
> some file could change and we wouldn't have an up-to-date database. Perhaps
> the terminology and communication could be better here. We don't actually
> "index" everything the consequent times, but rather "check" it is there and
> up to date. The applet could be improved here I suppose. Perhaps if we are
> not initially indexing, we should say "Checking" or something. But basically
> there is little difference between indexing and checking. Both require some
> database interaction. One does a database lookup the other inserts and
> extracts metadata. The indexer and daemon don't change states depending on
> if they are looking up a file in the database (for up-to-dateness) or
> indexing it because it is new. Changing state for that would be quite
> pointless because it *could* switch for every other file then.
>
> We know if we are on an initial index. Perhaps we just need to change the
> text on subsequent cases to "Verifying" or "Checking"?

You explain what I already know/understand, and I really don't have
any problem with the terminology. Let me try explain:

1. initial indexing gets me 20 items
2. restart the daemon
3. now i get 40 items

(in my case, 40 is ~240,000)

> No, it is *tongue in cheek* WORKSFORME - it is a Bugzilla resolution :)

that's relieving :-)



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