[Tracker] Tracker performance question

[Ken Schmedding <schmedk gmail com>]

Greetings,

I was doing some testing and I was at a loss to explain this behavior.  Maybe someone understands why this happens.

Tracker version 0.8.12

test directories:  /foo - 18,109 items, 1.0Gb          /bar - 40,876 items, 863Mb

Starting with no tracker database (for each of the following)
index /foo takes 1 minute 20 seconds
index /bar takes 1 minute 30 seconds
index /foo and /bar takes 2 minutes 55 seconds

Now if I index /bar after indexing /foo by changing tracker-miner-fs.cfg and no database clear it takes 1 hour to index /bar

However if I initiate a tracker-control -k and shut down the tracker processes after indexing /foo, then do a tracker-control -s and then index /bar it takes 1 minute, 40 seconds.

1 hour versus 1 minute 40 seconds??

Does anyone know what is happening here?

Thanks,

Ken Schmedding