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

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

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On 21/09/11 15:22, Martyn Russell wrote:
> On 20/09/11 10:40, Rainer M Krug wrote:
> > 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?
>
> Yes. :) I checked and tracker-control finalizes the manager object
> right after calling the pause function. This means the dbus proxy
> essentially disappears and the other end assumes we just terminated
> as an application. I have updated the docs and tracker-control and
> it works now.

Great - thanks.

> See commits:
>
> commit fd508d73edf76fd9e603c76ab618658d4d81979e Author: Martyn
> Russell <martyn lanedo com> Date:   Wed Sep 21 14:18:22 2011 +0100
>
> tracker-control: Don't finalize TrackerMinerManager with 
> --pause-for-process
>
> This command line option was useless, the finalize meant we
> resumed immediately afterwards instead of waiting for the Ctrl+C
> for the main loop we use.
>
> This was noticed by Rainer M. Krug.
>
> commit 3b5c8d7ba512b4be731725095291cae4c2c32f5e Author: Martyn
> Russell <martyn lanedo com> Date:   Wed Sep 21 14:16:39 2011 +0100
>
> libtracker-miner: Improve docs for 
> tracker_miner_manager_pause_for_process()
>
> When finalizing the manager, it will resume the pause. The 
> tracker-control utility was demonstrating this. Let people calling
> it know.
>
> > 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.
>
> I would use that instead with 0.12.2 when it's released tomorrow.

Looking forward to the release,

> Thanks for noticing ;)

pleasure - it makes my life easier now.

Cheers,

Rainer

>


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