Re: [Tracker] following progress - no info for long time?

[Martyn Russell <martyn lanedo com>]

On 27/09/11 13:52, JÃrg Billeter wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-09-27 at 12:37 +0200, Rainer M Krug wrote:
> > On 27/09/11 12:07, Martyn Russell wrote:
> > > The crawling stage can take some time depending on what locations
> > > you index and how many directories you have there.
> >
> > What is "some time"? I have started tracker thias morning, and it is
> > still crawling recursively "/" (I know, it is not recommended, but it
> > should not cause any problems, I guess.
>
> It makes no sense at all trying to index directories such
> as /dev, /proc, and /sys (and more). I don't consider it worthwhile

I should also point out, we EXPLICITLY ignore these locations:

http://git.gnome.org/browse/tracker/tree/src/miners/fs/tracker-miner-files.c#n390

But it still leaves places like /etc and /var which are not useful to index.

> debugging anything like this. Kernel filesystems may have slightly
> different behavior and you really don't want to index files such
> as /proc/self/mem.
>
> I suggest you to fix your configuration and try again.

Indeed.

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Regards,
Martyn

Founder and CEO of Lanedo GmbH.