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Bug 502875 - Not rescan whole HOME every login
Not rescan whole HOME every login
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: tracker
Classification: Core
Component: Miners
git master
Other All
: Normal minor
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Assigned To: tracker-general
Jamie McCracken
: 518064 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2007-12-10 16:40 UTC by Andrea Ratto
Modified: 2010-03-16 12:09 UTC
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Description Andrea Ratto 2007-12-10 16:40:08 UTC 
XY has lots of files in his laptop's home dir. Every login tracker scans his entire home for new files and that takes a couple of minutes, eats performance and wears the disc.
This is not needed most of the time since the files that are there are exactly the same that he had when he last quitted, so trackerd is not going to find anything new.
Let's do that just once in week or so.

This is annoyance #1 for me in my sporadic use of tracker. It's not a matter of nice or ionice, it's just stupid duplicated work.

Other information:
Comment 1 Jamie McCracken 2007-12-10 17:00:36 UTC 
We need to crawl to place watches on directories. Its a flaw of inotify but I am planning to impplement a kernel file notification thingy that does not require watches and which will log all changes to a file (much like OS/X does)

This would mean no crawl on startup and no grinding of your hard drive
Comment 2 Carlos Garnacho 2009-03-16 14:12:31 UTC 
*** Bug 518064 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Martyn Russell 2010-03-11 15:21:48 UTC 
Can the reporter of this bug set the _version_ so we can target bugs to work on more easily please. We can also have an idea about if these bugs are likely to be obsolete too.

If you don't set the version, we are less likely to look at them.

Sorry for the spam, but I don't want to say this 88 times on each bug :)
Comment 4 Martyn Russell 2010-03-16 12:09:36 UTC 
This won't be fixed until we have a replacement for inotify as Jamie says. As such, marking as WONTFIX.