Re: [Tracker] Correct way to pause / throttle tracker

[Rainer M Krug <r m krug gmail com>]

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On 20/09/11 11:26, Martyn Russell wrote:
> On 20/09/11 10:14, Rainer M Krug wrote:
> > Hi
>
> Hello,
>
> > what is the correct way to pause / throttle tracker while doing
> > other computations?
>
> You can pause with:
>
> tracker-control --miner Files --pause='Need CPU'
>
> You can resume with:
>
> tracker-control --miner Files --resume=1
>
> ^^ the "1" there is the cookie given by the pause command.

Thanks - that sounds good.

Following this, I also tried

  tracker-control --miner Files --pause-for-process='Need CPU'

from xterm but it does not seem to pause the miner (still using CPU
time, although when using --pause, it does not), although it increases
the Cookie number - is this a bug?

One additional question: I would like to be able to have a script,
which pauses tracker-miner-fs, and another one which resumes it. The
pausing is easy, but how can I save the cookie number into a file, to
make sure that I resume the right Cookie?

If --pause-for-process would be working, that would be the easiest to
use for this.

Thanks,

Rainer

> --
>
> For throttling, you can use tracker-preferences and change things
> on the first page there.


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