I dont know about other indexers Trackers indexer is a hash table so words are written at random locations - its not possible to write more than one word at a time nor do we know whether certain words are stored sequentially as a result.
We rely on the kernel to order the writes elevator fashion so they can be written in a contiguous fashion - sadly that does not happen on ext3 but does if ~/.cache/tracker is mounted on XFS We call fdatasync after every 1000-5000 words written to prevent pdflush starving the disk from other apps (this starvation appears to be a recent problem in kernels since 2.6.20) I will add an option for fast merges which is approx 50% quicker without any fsyncs but will hog the disk when doing so on ext3. -- Heavy Disk I/O harms desktop responsiveness https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/131094 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
