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

[Calvin Walton <calvin walton gmail com>]

On Sun, 2010-05-16 at 10:27 -0400, Calvin Walton wrote:
> On Sun, 2010-05-16 at 13:37 +0200, Philip Van Hoof wrote:
> > On Sun, 2010-05-02 at 22:11 -0400, Calvin Walton wrote:
> > > 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?

> Looks like the development branch fixes the problems I was having.
> tracker-store's memory usage is insignificant (~14MB RSS, growing by
> 100k every 5 minutes or so), CPU usage is lower (previously
> tracker-store was pegging a CPU at 100%), and indexing speed is up.
>
> I'll let it run until completion to see if anything else pops up, but
> it's looking good so far.

Well, tracker-store appears to have been fixed, but now tracker-extract
is acting up. Within 20 minutes of starting indexing, it was up to 16GB
virtual (10GB RSS) memory usage) and was swapping out all my apps, I had
to kill it to get my desktop responsive again.

Any new ideas?

-- 
Calvin Walton <calvin walton gmail com>