Bad coding practices in Fedora packages

[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 of manuals in PDF format.
>   After about two or three hours of IO after login I noticed 
> ~/.cache/tracker/meta.db-wal had grown to 31GiB.  At this point I killed
> tracker processes, removed this file and disabled tracker for this session.
>   This was all on 5400 RPM 2,5" laptop drive.

So it was very likely indexing those .c files right? Could you file a
tracker bug about this? Going from 4GiB to 31+GiB is weird.

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Regards,
Olav