Re: [Tracker] "Desktop Search" Performance

[Martyn Russell <martyn lanedo com>]

On 28/11/11 14:13, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> tracker-0.12.5-3.4.1.x86_64
> openSUSE 12.1 / x86_64 3.1.0-1.2-desktop
> Intel i7 Q720, 6GB RAM

I just upgraded to something very similar myself ;)

> I use Tracker in GNOME 3.2.1.  It works very well; it indexes document
> content very effectively for all the file-types I have.

Good to hear!

> But I'm curious if there is a setting or technique I can use to improve
> search performance.  Searching using "Desktop Search" works, but seems
> to take a fairly long time [the utility displays the whirling search
> indicator, usually for about 15 seconds]

"Desktop Search" here is a bit ambiguous, do you mean "tracker-needle" 
(as it is from the command line)?

If so, yes I have seen something like this. It should be much improved 
in more recent versions of Tracker. We added a limit to searches (500 
per category IIRC) and a limit note so you know if you hit it.

Basically, we wanted to avoid users waiting for minutes to return 
thousands of rows. In those cases, the search criteria is just not 
accurate enough. Even Google doesn't show everything in one view ;)

> My .local/share/tracker is ~57MB.  Mostly that seems to be the
> tracker-store journal 46MB and its related backup files.

This was improved in 0.12.4, I *think* you may need to reindex to fix 
that if you created the DB *before* that version. Perhaps Juergbi 
comment here? The Journal was limited to 10Mb in that release.

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Regards,
Martyn

Founder and CEO of Lanedo GmbH.