Re: [Tracker] huge database

[Aleksander Morgado <aleksander lanedo com>]

> And searching for a key word is generally quite slow.  In the options
> dialog box, I gave tracker a list of things not to index, such as
> auxiliary TeX files (*.bbl, *.blg, ...) and mathematica files (*.nb)
> and not to index version control directories like .svn or _darcs.  I
> told it to skip directories named 'Data' and 'Samples' where I keep
> large text files full of numerical data.
>
>
> At least I think that's what I did.  I entered those in the 'Ignored
> Content' tab under 'Directories', 'Glob patterns to ignore'.
>
>
> I can't figure out what's taking up so much time and space, and I
> don't know where to begin.  Is there a way to get some kind of list of
> what files it's searching and how much space they're taking up in the
> database?

Did you run "tracker-control -rs" to reindex all from scratch after
those configuration changes? Not sure if tracker-miner-fs will manage
that configuration change automagically... specially for the ignore
patterns.



-- 
Aleksander