- If you have more than 8192 directories, it can’t monitor them (max inotify limit)
- No search results
- access(), stat() and then lstat() called on *every* file that it’s going to index… this takes a long time.
- Did I mention that search doesn’t actually give you any results?
- Even when you run strings on the database and then search for something there, you don’t get any results
- Even when you search for the name of an application, you get no results.
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October 18th, 2007 at 10:12 pm
Just a clarification note: #1 and #3 are also valid with beagle too. Welcome back.
October 19th, 2007 at 9:40 am
Ahh… at least with Beagle I’ve found that you actually can get search results while all this is going on… not so with tracker (not even for the Applications which I just saw it scan)
November 21st, 2007 at 12:00 am
Is Your Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon Running Too Slow?
Some days ago I noticed Woodcarver, the workstation where I spend most of my time, running too slow. A quick look at top found the problem: trackerd, the daemon used by Meta Tracker.
And even when I like the idea of having a desktop search engine I haven
October 10th, 2008 at 9:11 pm
The only problem is the tracker has the most relevant results:
Beagle - zillions of worthless results
Google Desktop - does not upweight the filename enough, so “Configuration Guide” matches things which mention configuration a lot, but actual “Configuration Guide.pdf’ is down at result 25.
Tracker - most relevant results on the first page (puts filename matches first)
December 11th, 2008 at 11:20 pm
Tracker is awesome… when it actually does work. But for me, it’s refusal to show results occurs too often and I’m just sick and tired of it. I just switched to beagle a few hours ago. Haven’t tried it yet though.