Re: Bad coding practices in Fedora packages

2012-01-20 Thread Denys Vlasenko
On 01/04/2012 10:36 AM, Michal Hlavinka wrote: On 01/03/2012 05:21 PM, Sérgio Basto wrote: I agree, at least for non-gnome users , tracker shouldn't be in autostart. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=771601 Thank you Michal for opening a bug. I should learn from you: less complai

Re: Bad coding practices in Fedora packages

2012-01-05 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 09:17:16AM +0100, Tomasz Torcz wrote: > ~ without recurse, and standard XDG directories in ~ with recurse. > In ~/Documents I have 4GiB of mostly .c source files in various revisions, > for a total of 189833 files. In other directories I have 5 photos in .jpg, > and couple

Re: Bad coding practices in Fedora packages

2012-01-05 Thread Tomasz Torcz
On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 12:22:12PM +0100, Olav Vitters wrote: > On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 05:47:11PM +0100, Tomasz Torcz wrote: > > Also, 30 GiB in .cache/tracker is a bit extreme when rest of my ~ is 4 > > GiB. > > Tracker should only index a few standard directories ($HOME without > subdirector

Re: Bad coding practices in Fedora packages

2012-01-04 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 05:47:11PM +0100, Tomasz Torcz wrote: > Also, 30 GiB in .cache/tracker is a bit extreme when rest of my ~ is 4 GiB. Tracker should only index a few standard directories ($HOME without subdirectories, ~/Documents, etc). What does it index on your machine? Is that the defau

Re: Bad coding practices in Fedora packages

2012-01-04 Thread Michal Hlavinka
On 01/03/2012 05:21 PM, Sérgio Basto wrote: On Tue, 2012-01-03 at 11:15 -0500, Genes MailLists wrote: On 01/03/2012 09:16 AM, Denys Vlasenko wrote: # cat /proc/meminfo>/tmp/1; killall tracker-store; sleep 1; cat /proc/meminfo>/tmp/2; cat /tmp/1 /tmp/2 | grep MemFree MemFree: 1940372 kB

Re: Bad coding practices in Fedora packages

2012-01-03 Thread Mathieu Bridon
On Tue, 2012-01-03 at 19:39 -0700, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: > On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 2:45 PM, Nathanael D. Noblet wrote: > > On 01/03/2012 02:00 PM, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: > >> > >> I feel like I'm the only Fedora user on the planet who actually does > >> like desktop search. I love that I ca

Re: Bad coding practices in Fedora packages

2012-01-03 Thread T.C. Hollingsworth
On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 2:45 PM, Nathanael D. Noblet wrote: > On 01/03/2012 02:00 PM, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: >> >> I feel like I'm the only Fedora user on the planet who actually does >> like desktop search.  I love that I can press ALT+F2 and play a movie >> or e-mail somebody just as easily as

Re: Bad coding practices in Fedora packages

2012-01-03 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2012-01-03 at 20:06 +, mike cloaked wrote: > I also discovered that three different tracker processes were running > in my xfce desktop! However since I don't see a need for them for me, > nor do I want them, it was relatively easy to prevent them from > executing on desktop startup b

Re: Bad coding practices in Fedora packages

2012-01-03 Thread Nathanael D. Noblet
On 01/03/2012 02:00 PM, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: I feel like I'm the only Fedora user on the planet who actually does like desktop search. I love that I can press ALT+F2 and play a movie or e-mail somebody just as easily as I've always opened programs from there. IMHO, it beats trawling throug

Re: Bad coding practices in Fedora packages

2012-01-03 Thread T.C. Hollingsworth
On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 1:50 PM, mike cloaked wrote: > I think tracker can be turned off centrally for KDE and XFCE by going to > > /etc/xdg/autostart/tracker-store.desktop > > Find the line: > OnlyShowIn=GNOME;KDE;XFCE; > > Remove the KDE and XFCE bits. > > Similar for the other two tracker files

Re: Bad coding practices in Fedora packages

2012-01-03 Thread T.C. Hollingsworth
On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 1:06 PM, mike cloaked wrote: > I also discovered that three different tracker processes were running > in my xfce desktop!  However since I don't see a need for them for me, > nor do I want them, it was relatively easy to prevent them from > executing on desktop startup by g

Re: Bad coding practices in Fedora packages

2012-01-03 Thread mike cloaked
On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 8:06 PM, mike cloaked wrote: > On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 4:47 PM, Tomasz Torcz wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 02:32:28PM +0100, Denys Vlasenko wrote: >>> In my opinion, a "search tool and indexer", even if it brands itself >>> "a powerful desktop-neutral first class object

Re: Bad coding practices in Fedora packages

2012-01-03 Thread mike cloaked
On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 4:47 PM, Tomasz Torcz wrote: > On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 02:32:28PM +0100, Denys Vlasenko wrote: >> In my opinion, a "search tool and indexer", even if it brands itself >> "a powerful desktop-neutral first class object database", has no valid >> technical reasons to run on the

Re: Bad coding practices in Fedora packages

2012-01-03 Thread Tomasz Torcz
On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 02:32:28PM +0100, Denys Vlasenko wrote: > In my opinion, a "search tool and indexer", even if it brands itself > "a powerful desktop-neutral first class object database", has no valid > technical reasons to run on the machine all the time, even at times when > nothing is usi

Re: Bad coding practices in Fedora packages

2012-01-03 Thread Sérgio Basto
On Tue, 2012-01-03 at 11:15 -0500, Genes MailLists wrote: > On 01/03/2012 09:16 AM, Denys Vlasenko wrote: > > > # cat /proc/meminfo >/tmp/1; killall tracker-store; sleep 1; cat > > /proc/meminfo >/tmp/2; cat /tmp/1 /tmp/2 | grep MemFree > > MemFree: 1940372 kB > > MemFree: 1963860

Re: Bad coding practices in Fedora packages

2012-01-03 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 01/03/2012 04:15 PM, Genes MailLists wrote: As far as I know tracker is a feature of Gnome 3 - there may be a way to turn it off tho it may need a gnome registry tweak ... Open up a terminal as an regular user and run gnome-session-properties you can disable it there. JBG -- devel mail

Re: Bad coding practices in Fedora packages

2012-01-03 Thread Genes MailLists
On 01/03/2012 09:16 AM, Denys Vlasenko wrote: > # cat /proc/meminfo >/tmp/1; killall tracker-store; sleep 1; cat > /proc/meminfo >/tmp/2; cat /tmp/1 /tmp/2 | grep MemFree > MemFree: 1940372 kB > MemFree: 1963860 kB > > As you see, killing it on my machine freed over 23 megs worth

Re: Bad coding practices in Fedora packages

2012-01-03 Thread Denys Vlasenko
On 01/03/2012 02:57 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote: Just a comment on the accuracy of the numbers. # ps_mem.py¹ | grep tracker 3.2 MiB + 730.5 KiB = 3.9 MiB tracker-miner-fs 3.9 MiB + 722.5 KiB = 4.6 MiB tracker-miner-flickr 5.5 MiB + 549.0 KiB = 6.0 MiB tracker-store

Re: Bad coding practices in Fedora packages

2012-01-03 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 01/03/2012 01:32 PM, Denys Vlasenko wrote: > I installed F16 on a new machine, trying to keep the installation > more or less lean. Meaning - not installing tons of packages w/o > thinking and ending up with tons of installed stuff I don't even know > what it is. > > Today, I'm looking at my pr

Bad coding practices in Fedora packages

2012-01-03 Thread Denys Vlasenko
I installed F16 on a new machine, trying to keep the installation more or less lean. Meaning - not installing tons of packages w/o thinking and ending up with tons of installed stuff I don't even know what it is. Today, I'm looking at my process list, sorted by amount of dirtied pages (which very