Re: [Tracker] tracker does reindex everything after restart

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

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On 22/09/11 16:12, Rainer M Krug wrote:
> On 22/09/11 15:55, Aleksander Morgado wrote:
>
> > > > > it seems (based on the CPU usage and the output of 
> > > > > tracker-control -F) that the installation of tracker
> > > > > 0.12.1 does indeed reindex everything after it was stopped
> > > > > by using tracker-control -t and started by tracker-control
> > > > > -s
> > > > >
> > > > > Is there a way that I can confirm this (log-files)?
> > > >
> > > > It will re-crawl to set up monitors, but reindexing no. It
> > > > may continue where it left off if you didn't shutdown when it
> > > > was idle.
> > >
> > > OK - one additional question: I have seen somewhere, that the 
> > > number of monitors is limited by a setting for the file
> > > system, but that it can be increased, but I do not remember
> > > where I have seen it - do you probably know how this can be
> > > done? (FS: ext4)
>
> > Go root and give the new number, like: # echo 524288 >

Just out of interest? Why 524288 (which is 2^19) and not 2^20?

Rainer

> > /proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_watches
>
> > Although this number may already be increased if you installed 
> > Tracker through a packaging system. The Tracker Team PPA in
> > Ubuntu already does this: 
> > http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~tracker-team/tracker/tracker.head/view/head:/debian/30-tracker.conf
>
> >
> thanks
>
> - I just executed the command you gave me. I googled and found, 
> among others, a way to make this persistant between reboots, by
> executing
>
> echo âfs.inotify.max_user_watches = 524288â >> /etc/sysctl.conf
>
> as root. (e.g.
> http://www.afiestas.org/nepomuk-is-not-fast-is-instant/)
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rainer
>
> > Cheers,

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