Comment 21 for bug 1666676

Carlos Garnacho [2017-03-01 10:59 -0000]:
> > - Is it acceptable to have approximate search results if the indexing isn't (yet) up to date?
>
> If tracker-miner-fs is not paused/throttled down, it will pick up
> changes in monitored folders just as fast as any other app, there is
> very little extra overhead above the gio/inotify delays.

> > - Does it significantly affect battery life?
>
> Given Tracker is pretty conservative while on battery, that's a bold "no".

It's hard to make these statements simultaneously be true. There's clearly a
trade-off between correctness and efficiency here. Unless nautilus pokes
tracker to wake up and do a shallow (no previews, etc.) index/force-refresh the
searched-for directory unthrottled right away? Then that would be the
equivalent of a "classic" search, except that the gained data would be
available in the tracker DB for the next time.