On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 17:43 -0400, Yoichi Aso wrote: > Hello, > > I just installed tracker to my Fedora 7 desktop and the indexing seems to > have almost finished. > Then I found that the cache files are huge. > Here is the result of "ls -lh" in ~/.cache/tracker/ > > -rw------- 1 aso aso 12K 2007-10-24 17:56 email-contents.db > -rw------- 1 aso aso 1.2M 2007-10-24 17:56 email-index.db > -rw------- 1 aso aso 96K 2007-10-24 17:56 email-meta.db > -rw------- 1 aso aso 167M 2007-10-25 16:03 file-contents.db > -rw------- 1 aso aso 1.4G 2007-10-25 17:26 file-index.db > -rw------- 1 aso aso 13M 2007-10-24 21:31 file-index.tmp.1 > -rw------- 1 aso aso 12M 2007-10-24 21:32 file-index.tmp.2 > -rw------- 1 aso aso 12M 2007-10-24 21:43 file-index.tmp.3 > -rw------- 1 aso aso 14M 2007-10-24 22:01 file-index.tmp.4 > -rw------- 1 aso aso 14M 2007-10-25 12:51 file-index.tmp.5 > -rw------- 1 aso aso 4.5G 2007-10-25 17:28 file-meta.db > -rw------- 1 aso aso 304K 2007-10-25 17:28 file-meta.db-journal > -rw------- 1 aso aso 1.2M 2007-10-25 17:26 file-update-index.db > > The total is 6.1GB. > My home directory contains about 24GB of data (text files, pdf, OpenOffice > documents, jpg, mp3, etc.) > Can someone tell me if this is normal ? > > I used google desktop and beagle in the past on the same machine. > The google desktop cache was about 858MB. > The beagle cache was about 880MB. > These values are after the initial indexing has been finished. > > If this cache size is abnormal for tracker (I hope it is the case), I will > delete the cache and let tracker re-index the entire home directory. > The version of tracker I'm using is 0.6.3 (installed from Fedora 7 yum > repository). >
it is very abnormal file-meta.db alone is too big - you would need over a million files for it to surpass 1GB (assuming average of 1kb of metadata per file) pls do following: killall -9 trackerd trackerd --reindex can you let us know the final size when it has finished reindexing jamie _______________________________________________ tracker-list mailing list tracker-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/tracker-list
