{"id":906,"date":"2007-10-18T18:46:09","date_gmt":"2007-10-18T08:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/18\/problems-with-tracker-and-why-im-back-to-beagle\/"},"modified":"2007-10-18T18:46:09","modified_gmt":"2007-10-18T08:46:09","slug":"problems-with-tracker-and-why-im-back-to-beagle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/18\/problems-with-tracker-and-why-im-back-to-beagle\/","title":{"rendered":"Problems with Tracker (and why I’m back to Beagle)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. If you have more than 8192 directories, it can’t monitor them (max inotify limit)<\/li>\n
  2. No search results<\/li>\n
  3. access(), stat() and then lstat() called on *every* file that it’s going to index… this takes a long time.<\/li>\n
  4. Did I mention that search doesn’t actually give you any results?<\/li>\n
  5. Even when you run strings on the database and then search for something there, you don’t get any results<\/li>\n
  6. Even when you search for the name of an application, you get no results.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    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 … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gnome"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5a6n8-eC","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":122,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2003\/06\/25\/officially-the-weirdest-search-string-for-flamingspork\/","url_meta":{"origin":906,"position":0},"title":"officially the weirdest search string for flamingspork","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2003-06-25","format":false,"excerpt":"\"months or heaviness or skulker or baklava or wattenberg\" now, who would search for this? and then click through to my site?","rel":"","context":"In "General"","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1332,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/05\/search-an-appliance-by-size\/","url_meta":{"origin":906,"position":1},"title":"Search an Appliance by Size","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2009-01-05","format":false,"excerpt":"My dad found (and pointed me to) this site: Search an Appliance by Size - Appliances Online. 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