Re: [Tracker] add one feature to query tracker daemon's busy/idle status

[jamie <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

On Fri, 2007-06-29 at 10:56 +0800, Jerry Tan wrote:
> This patch add one API to tracker client,
> so it is easy to query tracker daemon's busy/idle status by call it.
>
> for example, a desktop applet can show different icons when tracker 
> daemon is busy or idle.

its not quite right

the queue length can be zero and tracker can still be indexing. Also we
overflow large queues into a temp table to preserve RAM (you will see it
called as pending files in the code) so it can be zero but still have a
large number of pending files

you really need to check for the file process thread to be sleeping
instead and set a suitable variable. There is a tracker->status variable
already in the code in trackerd.c to track the various states but its
not used anywhere so I dont know if its up to date

everything else looks ok so feel free to send an update

thanks

jamie