Re: [Tracker] "too many files opened" critical messages

[Jamie McCracken <jamie mccrack googlemail com>]

should not be a problem with breadth first as you only hold the current
directory handle and the file you are indexing handle. subdirs are
stored on a list for breadth first

On Tue, 2009-07-28 at 13:25 +0100, Martyn Russell wrote:
> On 28/07/09 12:54, Jamie McCracken wrote:
> > On Tue, 2009-07-28 at 09:23 +0100, Martyn Russell wrote:
> > > If you can break during running tracker-miner-fs in the function on the
> > > line you reported earlier (tracker-crawler.c, line 854) where the error
> > > occurs that would be great. You should see how many iterators there are
> > > at the time.
> > >
> > > I wonder if this is caused by having very deep file systems? Hmm. It
> > > would be interesting to know what file this happens for too.
> >
> > original tracker used breadth first recursive scanning so this was never
> > a problem
> >
> > Depth first scanning is broken and should never be used because of file
> > handle limits
>
> And we should too, but if there is only one breadth then it is still 
> possible.