Re: [Tracker] dbus_fd_passing

[Adrien Bustany <abustany gnome org>]

Le 2012-03-13 15:32, Martyn Russell a ÃcritÂ:
> On 13/03/12 11:13, Putinei Ionut wrote:
> > Hello,
>
> Hello,
>
> > What is the effect pf disabling dbus fd passing?
> > (--enable_dbus_fd_passing=no)?
> > Will i see queries performing poor after this?
>
> Less efficiently yes at high volume.
>
> The idea is that you don't encapsulate all the information from a
> file descriptor over DBus, you just read from the file directly. This
> improves performance. I don't have any numbers here to back it up
> though.

There are some numbers here: 
http://blogs.gnome.org/abustany/2010/05/20/ipc-performance-the-return-of-the-report/

Those were on a very specific benchmark though, for Tracker the 
performance gains might be slower.

Cheers

Adrien