Re: [Tracker] Tracker and Zeitgeist

[Richard Hughes <hughsient gmail com>]

2009/7/15 Martyn Russell <martyn lanedo com>:
> On 12/07/09 18:28, Richard Hughes wrote:
> > Being blunt, to make it into gnome3, you'll going to have to make
> > tracker much easier to use, and also make trackerd use much less power
> > and disk space.
>
> Have you tried 0.7 (and it has not had anywhere near the polish that 0.6
> has)?

Yes, and this seems to get stuck at 100% cpu much less, but it still
uses significant power when starting up. For me that's a bit issue, as
if 1,000,000 machines all are using 1W extra (not that much) for 1
hour every day because of tracker, then you're using an extra 1MWh
every day. Also, when tracker is hammering the disk and doing the
initial index, it's using _substantially_ more than 1W. I can provide
power graphs if anyone is interested.

> > ...you all need to
> > stop talking about ontologies and start talking about use-cases and
> > UI.
>
> Exactly!

The number of people who actually understand all this stuff, and are
capable of a SPARQL query without copy and pasting could probably be
counted on one hand. My advice: get a working search bar that real
users can use as soon as possible.

Richard.