On Sun, 2008-08-24 at 20:43 -0400, Jamie McCracken wrote: > On Sun, 2008-08-24 at 21:27 -0300, Michael Gauthier wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I'm using the version of tracker included with Ubuntu 8.04. I also use > > Evolution and have indexing turned on for 68,000 emails. When tracker > > restarts (for example when the computer restarts), it seems to perform > > some sort of cleanup of the index. Since much of the email I receive is > > spam, these indexed emails must be deleted from tracker's index. > > > > Here's where I think things go wrong. Upon starting tracker in a fresh > > session, CPU usage spikes to 100% and stays there for hours. Running > > trackerd with the --verbose=2 option shows one of these lines appearing > > every 15 seconds: > > > > deleting email email://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/INBOX;uid=289018 > > > > Is tracker re-indexing the database after each row is deleted? If so, it > > would be much better to delete emails from the index in batches. > > > > > > > it does not reindex - it merely marks as deleted the emails registered > as junk > > it should be a lot quicker than every 15 secs (unless you are on a slow > NFS) and should not take more than a minutes or two to do > > it could be your email db is corrupted - can you let me know size of > files in ~/.cache/tracker >
Jamie, Thanks for getting back so quickly. Here are the contents of ~/.cache/tracker on my machine: -rw------- 1 gauthierm gauthierm 5.3M 2008-08-24 18:49 email-contents.db -rw------- 1 gauthierm gauthierm 246K 2008-08-24 21:47 email-contents.db-journal -rw------- 1 gauthierm gauthierm 90M 2008-08-24 18:45 email-index.db -rw------- 1 gauthierm gauthierm 51M 2008-08-24 18:49 email-meta.db -rw------- 1 gauthierm gauthierm 1.3M 2008-08-24 21:50 email-meta.db-journal -rw------- 1 gauthierm gauthierm 46M 2008-08-24 12:44 file-contents.db -rw------- 1 gauthierm gauthierm 67M 2008-08-24 18:45 file-index.db -rw------- 1 gauthierm gauthierm 88M 2008-08-24 18:48 file-meta.db -rw------- 1 gauthierm gauthierm 2.3M 2008-08-24 18:45 file-update-index.db Thanks, Mike _______________________________________________ tracker-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/tracker-list
