Re: [Tracker] a little bit of feedback

["Tomi N/A" <hefest gmail com>]

Hi everyone,

I'm stuck with the 0.6 branch until I decide to upgrade to Ubuntu 9.10
(which, I assume, uses 0.7...).

> If you have verbosity set to 3, you should see EVERYTHING that it tries to
> index, everything it ignores, etc.

Have tried it out and indeed, it does log a lot of information. I will
look into it when I get the opportunity.

> > 20 Nov 2009, 13:36:35: GLib-GIO-Critical **: g_file_hash: assertion
> > `G_IS_FILE (file)' failed
>
> Pretty sure this is fixed now.

It wasn't a mayor nuisance, but I'm glad to hear that.

> > I understand that tracker supports a limited set of file types, but I
> > don't see a reason for it to not at least index the full path to a
> > file, including it's name, regardless of the type.
>
> It should be doing this in 0.6. I know we definitely do this in 0.7.

Will probably look into it, thanks for the confirmation.

> > #3
> > It seems impossible to tell the indexer (via it's properties GUI) that
> > it' should not index mounted disks without restarting the indexer. I
> > would like not to restart the indexer and to store the preference for
> > the next run, whenever it might happen.
>
> This might be a bug which we have fixed but not released yet. Sounds
> reminiscent of one.

it's obviously not critical functionality, but it would be nice.

> > What I see in the preferences GUI is that if I decline to restart the
> > indexer, the "index mounted disks" property is silently reset to
> > "true".
>
> Hmm. I thought that was also fixed. What version of tracker are you using?

0.6

> > There are also problems when using find-as-you-type within the
> > deskbar-applet, but I don't believe this is the place to discuss those
> > (please correct me if I'm wrong).
>
> Hmm, not sure. We do maintain that (or did). What was the problem?

I've ran into problems here and there, but I'll try to verify the
problems by comparing what find-as-you type finds compared to the CLI
tracker search.

> Out of curiosity, have you thought about trying 0.7? It is infinitely
> better.

I would very much like to use the latest and greatest, but I
appreciate the stability I get from not customizing my Ubuntu machines
any more than absolutely necessary...so hopefully, Ubuntu 9.10 uses
tracker 0.7 and I might upgrade in the near future, but until then,
I'll have to make do with 0.6 until then.

There are a couple of additional problems I'd like to mention:

#5
Asking tracker to pause indexing (to free the CPU for other tasks)
seems to not have any effect: trackerd still takes 99% of the CPU.

#6
Trackerd prevents suspend to RAM (probably hibernation, as well, but I
haven't tested that one). Suspend has a 20s window to stop all
processes to be able to suspend: while it isn't the only culprit, 90%
of the time it's the trackerd process that prevents suspend.

Cheers,
Tomislav