Meta Tracker using too much resources and making HDD to act loudly

Zibi1981 · 2009-02-18 18:40:27

Recently I have been searching for a good desktop indexing application and I noticed Meta Tracker. It's quite easy to understand and it's interface looks good, even though I'm on KDE not GNOME. I have added trackerd to my /home/$USER/.kde/Autostart folder and it is working correctly after a fresh start. The problem I have with it is that it consumes too much CPU (usually 8-20%) and my disk acts very loudly while it runs. I'm getting the feeling that trackerd is accessing my HDD every 2 seconds producing lots of unwanted noise, and possibly contributing to faster wear and tear of my HDD.
Can someone using this program tell me if it's a normal behavior of Tracker, or did I do something wrong maybe.

Any help greatly appreciated

Last edited by Zibi1981 (2009-02-18 18:41:12)

bwalk · 2009-02-18 18:58:29

You have let trackerd finished its initial indexing? Here, I don't recognize the daemon anymore, except when really large amounts of data get created. Anyways, you can finetune tracker via ~/.config/tracker/tracker.cfg

Zibi1981 · 2009-02-18 21:43:15

Well, it surely had enough time to finish indexing. At the moment trackerd is using >30% of my CPU load, and HDD "ticks" to frequently AFAIK. I'm not very familiar with Meta Tracker and other indexing programs. Is it a way to make them use less resources? And BTW can I add trackerd to the DAEMONS section of my /etc/rc.conf file instead of creating link in KDE's autostart directory? This magnifying glass icon jumping just after I enter my desktop annoys me.

bwalk · 2009-02-20 16:37:35

Below are some statistics and my (I think default) tracker.cfg. trackerd gives me around 40 MB memory and exactly no cpu consumption. Afaik, there is no run-script for tracker which you can add to rc.conf.

-------fetching index stats---------

default : 0 
Files : 52590 
Folders : 4062 
Documents : 1318 
Images : 2652 
Music : 400 
Videos : 380 
Text : 6968 
Development : 32892 
Other : 3918 
Emails : 0 
EvolutionEmails : 0 
ThunderbirdEmails : 0 
KMailEmails : 0 
EmailAttachments : 0 
EvolutionAttachments : 0 
KMailAttachments : 0 
Conversations : 0 
GaimConversations : 0 
Applications : 373 
Webhistory : 0 
------------------------------------

[General]
# Log Verbosity - Valid values are 0 (displays/logs only errors), 1 (minimal), 2 (detailed), and 3 (debug)
Verbosity=0
# Set the initial sleeping time, in seconds
InitialSleep=45
# Minimizes the use of memory but may slow indexing down
LowMemoryMode=false

[Watches]
# List of directory roots to index and watch seperated by semicolons
WatchDirectoryRoots=/home/bwalk;
# List of directory roots to index but not watch (no live updates but are refreshed when trackerd is next restarted) seperated by semicolons
CrawlDirectory=
# List of directory roots to not index and not watch seperated by semicolons
NoWatchDirectory=/home/bwalk/Download/torrent;
# Set to false to prevent watching of any kind
EnableWatching=true

[Indexing]
# Throttles the indexing process. Allowable values are 0-20. higher values decrease indexing speed
Throttle=10
# Disables the indexing process
EnableIndexing=true
# Enables indexing of a file's text contents
EnableFileContentIndexing=true
# Enables generation of thumbnails
EnableThumbnails=false
# Enables fast index merges but may hog the disk for extended periods
EnableFastMerges=false
# List of partial file patterns (glob) seperated by semicolons that specify files to not index (basic stat info is only indexed for files that match these patterns)
NoIndexFileTypes=;
# Sets minimum length of words to index
MinWordLength=3
# Sets maximum length of words to index (words are cropped if bigger than this)
MaxWordLength=30
# Sets the language specific stemmer and stopword list to use 
# Valid values are 'en' (english), 'da' (danish), 'nl' (dutch), 'fi' (finnish), 'fr' (french), 'de' (german), 'it' (italien), 'nb' (norwegian), 'pt' (portugese), 'ru' (russian), 'es' (spanish), 'sv' (swedish)
Language=en
# Enables use of language-specific stemmer
EnableStemmer=true
# Set to true prevents tracker from descending into mounted directory trees
SkipMountPoints=false
# Disable all indexing when on battery
BatteryIndex=true
# Disable initial index sweep when on battery
BatteryIndexInitial=false
# Pause indexer when disk space gets below equal/below this value, in %% of the $HOME filesystem. Set it to a value smaller then zero to disable pausing at all.
LowDiskSpaceLimit=1

[Emails]
IndexEvolutionEmails=false
IndexThunderbirdEmails=true

[Performance]
# Maximum size of text in bytes to index from a file's text contents
MaxTextToIndex=1048576
# Maximum number of unique words to index from a file's text contents
MaxWordsToIndex=10000
# Specifies the no of entities to index before determining whether to perform index optimization
OptimizationSweepCount=10000
# Sets the maximum bucket count for the indexer
MaxBucketCount=524288
# Sets the minimum bucket count
MinBucketCount=65536
# Sets no. of divisions of the index file
Divisions=4
# Selects the desired ratio of used records to buckets to be used when optimizing index (should be a value between 0 and 4) 
BucketRatio=1
# Alters how much padding is used to prevent index relocations. Higher values improve indexing speed but waste more disk space. Value should be in range (1..8)
Padding=2
# Sets stack size of trackerd threads in bytes. The default on Linux is 8Mb (0 will use the system default).
ThreadStackSize=0

Zibi1981 · 2009-02-20 23:50:34

Where did you get those stats from? I would like to check on mine too.
I didn't change manually any config entries, only via tracker-preferences. Have you set indexing and observing, or only indexing? How many directories you trackerd indexes?

bwalk · 2009-02-21 14:02:38

tracker-stats

I have both indexing and watching enabled. I have fast index merges disabled, but I don't know, how this behaves. I let it only watch my home director, but this contains already around 4000 directories and has about 50 GB data.

Zibi1981 · 2009-02-22 11:05:52

Here are my tracker stats

zbyszek ~ $  tracker-stats

-------pobieranie statystyk indeksowania---------

default : 0
Files : 157035
Folders : 22573
Documents : 5624
Images : 35446
Music : 683
Videos : 52
Text : 13769
Development : 18008
Other : 60880
Emails : 0
EvolutionEmails : 0
ThunderbirdEmails : 0
KMailEmails : 0
EmailAttachments : 0
EvolutionAttachments : 0
KMailAttachments : 0
Conversations : 0
GaimConversations : 0
Applications : 343
Webhistory : 0
------------------------------------

Trackerd is still using ~30% of my CPU load initially, and after a while it settles at around 2-3%. Is this a normal behavior?

bwalk · 2009-02-22 11:23:07

I don't know how well tracker scales, but you're indexing about five times the data that I do. Mind posting your tracker.cfg and an extract from

tracker-files -s Other

and

du -h --max-depth=1 ~

Zibi1981 · 2009-02-22 13:17:21

Well, I wanted trackerd to index and watch my /home directory and only to index other folders, like: /var, /opt, /lib64, /lib and /etc (in case I'm looking for a config file).
Below are the configs you asked

[General]
# Log Verbosity - Valid values are 0 (displays/logs only errors), 1 (minimal), 2 (detailed), and 3 (debug)
Verbosity=0

# Minimizes the use of memory but may slow indexing down
LowMemoryMode=false

# Set the initial sleeping time, in seconds
InitialSleep=60

[Watches]
# List of directory roots to index and watch seperated by semicolons
WatchDirectoryRoots=/home/zbyszek;
# List of directory roots to index but not watch (no live updates but are refreshed when trackerd is next restarted) seperated by semicolons
CrawlDirectory=/var;/opt;/lib64;/lib;/etc;
# List of directory roots to not index and not watch seperated by semicolons
NoWatchDirectory=
# Set to false to prevent watching of any kind
EnableWatching=true

[Indexing]
# Throttles the indexing process. Allowable values are 0-20. higher values decrease indexing speed
Throttle=0
# Disables the indexing process
EnableIndexing=true
# Enables indexing of a file's text contents
EnableFileContentIndexing=true
# Enables generation of thumbnails
EnableThumbnails=false
# List of partial file patterns (glob) seperated by semicolons that specify files to not index (basic stat info is only indexed for files that match these patterns)
NoIndexFileTypes=;

# Sets minimum length of words to index
MinWordLength=3
# Sets maximum length of words to index (words are cropped if bigger than this)
MaxWordLength=30
# Sets the language specific stemmer and stopword list to use 
# Valid values are 'en' (english), 'da' (danish), 'nl' (dutch), 'fi' (finnish), 'fr' (french), 'de' (german), 'it' (italien), 'nb' (norwegian), 'pt' (portugese), 'ru' (russian), 'es' (spanish), 'sv' (swedish)
Language=en
# Enables use of language-specific stemmer
EnableStemmer=true

[Emails]
IndexEvolutionEmails=false

[Performance]
# Maximum size of text in bytes to index from a file's text contents
MaxTextToIndex=1048576
# Maximum number of unique words to index from a file's text contents
MaxWordsToIndex=10000
# Specifies the no of entities to index before determining whether to perform index optimization
OptimizationSweepCount=10000
# Sets the maximum bucket count for the indexer
MaxBucketCount=524288
# Sets the minimum bucket count
MinBucketCount=65536
# Sets no. of divisions of the index file
Dvisions=4
# Selects the desired ratio of used records to buckets to be used when optimizing index (should be a value between 0 and 4) 
BucketRatio=1
# Alters how much padding is used to prevent index relocations. Higher values improve indexing speed but waste more disk space. Value should be in range (1..8)
Padding=2

zbyszek ~ $  tracker-files -s Other
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bwalk · 2009-02-22 14:21:36

Hmm, I'd try letting it only watch your home directory. First, what are the chances that you search for a file which hides in /lib64? Second, tracker is optimized for finding metadata inside files, and I hardly doubt that a .so file has some. But yet it has to crawl along those directories.

As I still don't know anything about the scaling properties of tracker, I'd suggest, kill your tracker index cache in .cache/tracker and .local/share/tracker, get rid of those unnecessary directories above and try again. If the situation gets better, there's your problem, if not, we can look again.

Zibi1981 · 2009-02-22 17:40:18

Well I guess it could be the reason. I noticed that after a while trackerd is using less that 1% of CPU load, so it seems that after "crawling" (as you called it) along those directories it settles down on a stable, low CPU-load-level usage.
What do you mean exactly by killing tracker index cache? Should I delete those folders?

bwalk · 2009-02-23 00:10:09

Yeah, just delete them. I don't know, if tracker is smart enough to clean them up itself.

Zibi1981 · 2009-05-24 14:27:42

Well MetaTracker used to work nicely for some amount of time...it did... Now after updating my system some time ago I've noticed that it won't start during OS boot-up (the link in ~/.kde/Autostart isn't working now). Maybe it has something to do with my graphical environment, which is some kind mixed up, mostly consisting of KDEmod 3.5.10 packages with addition of some of KDE4. I'm not quite sure how this is possible, I think that Pacman mixed them up while updating my system. Nevertheless I also have a ~/.kde4 folder but without /Autostart sub-folder in it.
Going back to the main topic trackerd and tracker-indexer when started manually are consuming 100% of my dual-core CPU, rising it's temperature, with no visible result. they just keep "eating" RAM memory and never stop. What the heck? Does anyone have similar issue?

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