Anders Aagaard wrote:
> Jamie McCracken wrote:
>> Anders Aagaard wrote:
>>
>>> Checked out a clean version now and that fixed it.
>>>
>>>>
>>>>> And when taking that out I get the error:
>>>>> aclocal: macro `AM_PROG_MKDIR_P' required but not defined
>>>>> aclocal: macro `AM_PROG_MKDIR_P' required but not defined
>>>>> in the libextractor directory.
>>>>>
>>>> dont remove dirs please!
>>>
>>> I just did a clean checkout and I still get that error.
>>
>> you are probably missing some standard automake macros then
>>
>> try upgrading automake?
>>
>> or google for more info on that macro
>>
>> You can download a different version of libextractor and use that 
>> (tracker will not build its internal libextractor in that case)
>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Attaching a theoretically working implementation of ionice.  
>>>>> trackerd.c would have to run the ionice_init() function.  I would 
>>>>> have tested it and made it a bit cleaner if I could get the cvs 
>>>>> version compiled at all :P
>>>>>
>>>>> Most of the code for ionice is gotten from the snippet in the 
>>>>> Documentation/block/ioprio.txt file in the linux kernel.
>>>> Correct me If I am wrong, but does not ionice default to the cpu 
>>>> nice value (which is +10 for tracker and +19 for text filters)?
>>>
>>> Just tried a nice --adjustment 19 on a process now, and used ionice 
>>> -p <process> to check the ionice level.  And it reported ioclass 
>>> none, ioprio 0.  (which in the kernel translates to ioclass best 
>>> effort, ioprio 4)
>>>
>>>> AFAIK, its linux specific and only in 2.6.13+ so I can't really 
>>>> depend on it.
>>>
>>> Might be possible to get configure to check for this, but I'm 
>>> horrible at autotools.
>>
>> me too! I hate the auto-foo shit (I always end up copying stuff from 
>> other packages!)
>>
>> I dont have ionice support in my kernel so I cant really implement 
>> this but Im happy to accept patches that does (with auto-foo and #ifdefs)
> 
> Attaching a patch that works for me, when running ioprio now reports 
> best-effort priority 7.  Which should improve desktop performance quite 
> a bit while running tracker updates.
> 
> Do you want the #define IOPRIO_SUPPORT moved from tracker-ioprio.h to 
> configure.in?  And if you do, does anyone know how to get autoconf to 
> check for the existance of a define? :P, that shouldn't be that hard ;)
> 

part of the problem is Im using the dapper kernel and its headers do not 
contain the setioprio stuff so detecting the header wont guarantee that 
I can include this automatically (and also wont compile in my case)

I think whats needed is an --enable-ionice option to configure. I will 
look at adding that in the next few days (although feel free to send a 
patch if you want it sooner)

thanks for pointing this out - it seems a really useful addition to 
tracker (for those who's kernel supports it).



-- 
Mr Jamie McCracken
http://jamiemcc.livejournal.com/

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