Re: [Tracker] Memory usage for tracker-extract and tracker-miner-fs

[Joe Rhodes <lists joerhodes com>]

Carlos:

I just tried the 1.7.2 tarball.  I think we may still have a leak.  The two processes were heading up over 
600 MB's.  

Here are the valgrind outputs.  I hope this helps:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/gyndn7ithpge6nc/valgrind-tracker-extract-log-1.7.2.gz?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/h250z3lh9mvr2vv/valgrind-tracker-miner-fs-log-1.7.2.gz?dl=0

I'm fairly certain I had included this previously, but here's the output status of my "./configure" command:

Build Configuration:

        Prefix:                                 /usr/local
        Source code location:                   .
        Compiler:                               gcc
        Compiler Warnings:                      no
          C    Flags:                            
          VALA Flags:                             -Wno-unused-variable -Wno-unused-function -Wno-shadow 
-Wno-format-nonliteral -Wno-sign-compare -Wno-strict-prototypes

        Win32:                                  no

        Enable gtk doc (for documentation):     no
        Enable man pages for GSettings:         yes

        Enable functional tests:                no
        Enable unit tests:                      yes

Feature Support:

        Support for HAL:                        no
        Support for UPower:                     no
        Support for network status detection:   no
        Unicode support library:                libunistring

        Build with Journal support:             yes
        Build with SQLite FTS support:          yes (built-in FTS: yes)
        Build with Stemming support:            no

        Cache media art                         no (libmediaart)
        Install artwork                         yes

        Bash completion support:                yes (/usr/share/bash-completion/completions)

Data Miners / Writebacks:

        FS (File System):                       yes (MeeGo support: no  (disabled))
        Applications:                           yes
        RSS:                                    no
        User Guides:                            yes
        Email:
          Evolution:                            no (/dev/null)
          Thunderbird:                          no  (/dev/null)
        Bookmarks:
          FireFox:                              yes (NONE/lib/firefox-addons/extensions)

        Extract (secondary extraction):         yes
        Writeback (writing changes back):       yes

Metadata Extractors:

        Support PNG:                            yes
        Support PDF:                            no
        Support XPS:                            no
        Support GIF:                            no (xmp: no)
        Support JPEG:                           yes (xmp: no, exif: no, iptc: no)
        Support TIFF:                           yes (xmp: no, exif: yes, iptc: no)
        Support Vorbis (ogg/etc):               no  (disabled)
        Support Flac:                           no  (disabled)
        Support MS & Open Office:               yes
        Support XML / HTML:                     yes
        Support embedded / sidecar XMP:         no
        Support generic media formats:          ? (An external generic_media player will be called) (backend: 
N/A)
        Support cue sheet parsing:              no
        Support playlists (w/ Totem):           no
        Support ISO image parsing:              no
        Support AbiWord document parsing:       yes
        Support DVI parsing:                    yes
        Support MP3 parsing:                    yes
        Support MP3 tag charset detection:      no (icu: , enca: no)
        Support PS parsing:                     yes
        Support text parsing:                   yes
        Support icon parsing:                   yes

Writeback Formats:

        Audio files using Taglib:               no
        XMP:                                    no

Applications:

        Build tracker-preferences:              no
        Build tracker-needle:                   no

Frameworks / Options:

        Support GNOME's Nautilus                no ()
        Support Maemo                           no
        Support libmeegotouch                   no  (disabled)
        Support Guaranteed Metadata             no (e.g. guess nie:title from files)


Cheers!
-Joe


> On Jan 17, 2016, at 4:00 PM, Carlos Garnacho <carlosg gnome org> wrote:
>
> Hi Joe, Philip,
>
> On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 8:55 AM, Philip Van Hoof <philip codeminded be> wrote:
> > Hi Joe,
> >
> > Ok, that's fine. It would have been nice if we could let you do a
> > valgrind re-run of the same use-case to see if we catch all the memory
> > leaks before Carlos makes a new release.
> >
> > But this way we'll do a post-release check of your use-case. If we see
> > more memory leaks after your retry we can always create a 7.1.3 release.
> >
> >
> > I'd say: Let the release horses go loose Carlos.
>
> A bit later than hoped, but Tracker 1.7.2 is out :), with some further
> last-minute leak fixes. It should run a lot better for you now Joe,
> please let us know how it gets along.
>
> Cheers,
>  Carlos