Comment 7 for bug 805210
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| Philipp C. Heckel (binwiederhier) wrote Re: [Bug 805210] Re: putting a larger file in synced folder generates large amount of Watcher events | #7 |
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(Get the code!)
I figured that out already -- I forgot the increment i++
Are you by any change related to Edsger Dijkstra?
On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 10:53 PM, Bjorge Dijkstra <email address hidden> wrote:
> I don't think it will be much of a problem that you walk again through
> the list. Since you now prevent the queue from filling up with a lot of
> duplicates the queue will in general be quite short (unless a lot
> different files change at the same time).
>
> In its current form it will probably hang though, since the while loop
> will only terminate if you remove all events from the queue which is not
> very likely to happen.
>
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> Title:
> putting a larger file in synced folder generates large amount of
> Watcher events
>
> Status in Syncany:
> Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> When I copy a somewhat larger file (e.g. a couple of megabytes) into
> the synchronized folder then this generates a very large amount of
> file watcher events and corresponding indexer updates.
>
> 11-07-03 20:39:24 | vulcan | BufferedWatcher | BufWatchTimer | INFO : ENTRY_CREATE /home/bjd/
> 11-07-03 20:39:24 | vulcan | LocalWatcher | BufWatchTimer | INFO : Watcher: Checking new/modified file /home/bjd/
> 11-07-03 20:39:24 | vulcan | LocalWatcher | BufWatchTimer | INFO : Watcher: Checking new/modified file /home/bjd/
> 11-07-03 20:39:24 | vulcan | Indexer | Indexer | INFO : Processing request org.syncany.
> 11-07-03 20:39:24 | vulcan | LocalWatcher | BufWatchTimer | INFO : Watcher: Checking new/modified file /home/bjd/
> 11-07-03 20:39:24 | vulcan | CheckIndexRequest | Indexer | INFO : Indexer: Checking file /home/bjd/
> 11-07-03 20:39:24 | vulcan | LocalWatcher | BufWatchTimer | INFO : Watcher: Checking new/modified file /home/bjd/
> 11-07-03 20:39:24 | vulcan | LocalWatcher | BufWatchTimer | INFO : Watcher: Checking new/modified file /home/bjd/
> 11-07-03 20:39:24 | vulcan | LocalWatcher | BufWatchTimer | INFO : Watcher: Checking new/modified file /home/bjd/
> ... <repeated lots of times> ...
>
> 11-07-03 20:39:25 | vulcan | Indexer | Indexer | INFO : Processing request org.syncany.
> 11-07-03 20:39:25 | vulcan | CheckIndexRequest | Indexer | INFO : Indexer: Checking file /home/bjd/
> 11-07-03 20:39:25 | vulcan | CheckIndexRequest | Indexer | INFO : File found in DB. Same modified date, same size. Nothing to do!
> 11-07-03 20:39:25 | vulcan | CheckIndexRequest | Indexer | INFO : Checking file DONE: /home/bjd/
> 11-07-03 20:39:25 | vulcan | Indexer | Indexer | INFO : Processing request org.syncany.
> 11-07-03 20:39:25 | vulcan | CheckIndexRequest | Indexer | INFO : Indexer: Checking file /home/bjd/
> 11-07-03 20:39:25 | vulcan | CheckIndexRequest | Indexer | INFO : File found in DB. Same modified date, same size. Nothing to do!
> 11-07-03 20:39:25 | vulcan | CheckIndexRequest | Indexer | INFO : Checking file DONE: /home/bjd/
> 11-07-03 20:39:25 | vulcan | Indexer | Indexer | INFO : Processing request org.syncany.
> ... <repeated lots of times> ...
>
> Moving parentKey.reset() from the BufferedWatcher worker thread to the
> end of processEvent() to hold of any new events until after processing
> seems to solve this (see attached patch).
>
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