On Sat, 2009-11-07 at 08:47 +0000, Martyn Russell wrote: > On 06/11/09 19:22, Alexander Larsson wrote: > > > There is one problem with POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED. If you do it on a file > > the kernel will drop it from its caches. This is generally what you want > > if you just indexed a 100 meg text file that no other app cares about > > atm, since it means we won't throw out 100 megs of otherwise useful > > caches. However, if you're reading a file that some other app actually > > cares about this may be a problem, since you're now ensuring that the > > file has to be re-read the next time that app wants to use the file. Not > > sure if there is a better way though... > > Yea. We don't index all 100Mb of the file. We only ever index n words of > any file. This is configurable in $HOME/.config/tracker/tracker-fts.cfg. > It is set to 10000 for now.
It was just an example. It might as well be 1000 files of 100kB, it amounts to the same thing wrt cache use. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
