Re: [Tracker] Excessive memory use by tracker-store

[Philip Van Hoof <spam pvanhoof be>]

On Sun, 2010-05-02 at 22:11 -0400, Calvin Walton wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> As a bit of an experiment, after installing tracker 0.8.4, I decided to
> try deleting all of its data files, journal, config, etc. in order to
> see how a fresh install and index would run.
>
> Admittedly I have a bit of a pathological case; my home directory has
> approximately 2.7 TiB of data, including both a collection of large
> media files (video and music) mixed with small development files (git
> clones of a large portion of gnome, the linux kernel, etc.)
>
> I've left the indexer processes running for about 24 hours now, and it
> has reached 83% complete. But I'm a bit worried about the memory usage:
>
> In the GNOME System Monitor, tracker-store is currently reported as
> using 9.9 GB of memory.

We recently found a memory leak. Can you retry your experiments using
the most recent commit in master?

Also, please give us what cat /proc/`pidof tracker-store`/status | grep
VmRSS gives you. GNOME System Monitor isn't really a very accurate tool
for this (although +9GB sure sounds bad still).

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