On 11/23/2016 10:15 PM,
carlosg(a)gnome.org wrote:
What about the impact on kernel caches? The additional activity will
evict things which would otherwise be used by foreground processes.
Tracker processes call sched_setscheduler/ioprio/nice to lower their priorities to a
minimum, that's as educated as you can get from userspace. And anyway...
tracker-miner-fs sits idle 99% of the time, every activity is punctual and finite, but of
course dependent on your own activity in the inspected folders.
Cheers,
Carlos