On Sun, 2007-07-15 at 12:28 -0400, Jeff wrote: > > we do currently delay dir scan for 5 secs at startup so as not to slow > > boot time > Just curious, did you benchmark that with an average gnome desktop > setup? I mean, if you add openoffice's quickstart and tomboy to the > login process, it can easily take 20+ seconds to login (and maybe more > than 30 if you add the deskbar-applet). > > In that case, I would guess that a 5 seconds delay for trackerd would > not be enough. Something like 10-20 seconds of delay might reduce the > risks (of meddling with the login process) further. What do you think? > > (disclaimer: I have not done scientific benchmarks on this, just > remembering my average login times. I'm also far from being a > performance expert)
we plan on increasing it to 30 secs default with an override in the cfg file and tracker-preferences so it can be fine tuned remember trackerd is running at nice +19 and on linux with low priority disk reads so it should not have a enormous effect at start up anyhow jamie _______________________________________________ tracker-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/tracker-list
