Hello Brian, FAM is for intercepting syscalls like open I believe. This is what virusscanners need. Tracker uses inotify at this moment. With the Linux kernel there is no way to monitor a root of a filesystem other than registering each and every directory (which is what crawling is for). One of the reasons for that is because kernel developers don't want (large) dynamic amounts of memory to be utilized whenever the kernel has to report changes on a filesystem. You can read this thread on the systemd mailing list for some more information and ideas from certain people experienced with the matter: https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/02434 4.html https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/02434 7.html Kind regards, Philip On Wed, 2017-11-29 at 21:55 -0500, Brian J. Murrell wrote:
Is it just because /home/brian/Pictures is on an NFS server that tracker just loops, constantly crawling it? 29 Nov 2017, 20:04:04: 1% File System - Crawling recursively directory 'file:///home/brian/Pictures' 29 Nov 2017, 20:10:14: 1% File System - Crawling recursively directory 'file:///home/brian/Pictures' 29 Nov 2017, 20:16:32: 1% File System - Crawling recursively directory 'file:///home/brian/Pictures' 29 Nov 2017, 20:22:38: 1% File System - Crawling recursively directory 'file:///home/brian/Pictures' 29 Nov 2017, 20:29:01: 1% File System - Crawling recursively directory 'file:///home/brian/Pictures' 29 Nov 2017, 20:35:16: 1% File System - Crawling recursively directory 'file:///home/brian/Pictures' 29 Nov 2017, 20:41:30: 1% File System - Crawling recursively directory 'file:///home/brian/Pictures' 29 Nov 2017, 20:48:59: 1% File System - Crawling recursively directory 'file:///home/brian/Pictures' 29 Nov 2017, 20:55:06: 1% File System - Crawling recursively directory 'file:///home/brian/Pictures' 29 Nov 2017, 21:01:34: 1% File System - Crawling recursively directory 'file:///home/brian/Pictures' 29 Nov 2017, 21:07:52: 1% File System - Crawling recursively directory 'file:///home/brian/Pictures' 29 Nov 2017, 21:14:06: 1% File System - Crawling recursively directory 'file:///home/brian/Pictures' 29 Nov 2017, 21:21:32: 1% File System - Crawling recursively directory 'file:///home/brian/Pictures' 29 Nov 2017, 21:29:10: 1% File System - Crawling recursively directory 'file:///home/brian/Pictures' 29 Nov 2017, 21:36:35: 1% File System - Crawling recursively directory 'file:///home/brian/Pictures' Is there really nothing better we can do except just constantly crawl NFS shares? Is FAM no longer used? Cheers, b. _______________________________________________ tracker-list mailing list tracker-list gnome org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/tracker-list
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