Hi, ext Gary Mulder wrote: >> > Here's the output from your script: >> > >> > ./numfiles.sh: ./numfiles.sh: 24: cannot create : Directory nonexistent >> > .. >> > ./numfiles.sh: ./numfiles.sh: 24: cannot create : Directory nonexistent >> > 1 24 >> > 7 MP3 >> > 1325 _notype >> >> This is interesting, there are over thousand files without any >> filename extension (or I botched my script). What files those >> are? :-) > > Nokia-N800-51:/media/mmc2# find . -type f | wc -l > 418 > Nokia-N800-51:/media/mmc2# find . -type d | wc -l > 42 Oh, so I botched my script... But most of those files are mp3: find . -name '*.mp3'|wc -l ? >> > I reconfirmed last night that Media Player is taking 5+ minutes to >> > start up. The GUI kept on telling me it was not responding and did I >> > want to kill it. I didn't, and eventually the Player behaved as >> > expected. >> >> This was with or without nicing the crawler (in its init script)? > > This was prior to nicing the crawler. Ok, nicing should fix that particular problem I think. Could you verify that? >> > 2. Powered on the unit, immediately run Media Player while the crawler >> > was running. Unit reset. >> >> Device rebooted? > > Yes. > >> Could you check how much RAM crawler takes at most while it indexes >> that card? Just start Xterm, run "top" in it and then take the card >> out and and put it back again and see what's the largest RSS value for >> the crawler process (if you press 'M' in keyboard, top sorts by memory >> usage)... > > I assume it is fine to remove and insert the internal SD card while > the unit is on? It's better to use external one for this kind of testing. > I did so, but didn't see the crawler kick in. I > therefore did a "/etc/init.d/metalayer-crawler0 restart", but this > didn't seem to do much either. In any event: > > PID USER STATUS RSS PPID %CPU %MEM COMMAND > ... > 2094 user S N 2896 329 0.0 2.2 metalayer-crawl > 2096 user R N 2896 2094 0.0 2.2 metalayer-crawl > > Hmm, it looks like the SD card did not remount: > > Nokia-N800-51:~# umount /media/mmc2 > Nokia-N800-51:~# mount /media/mmc2 > mount: Can't find /media/mmc2 in /etc/fstab > Nokia-N800-51:~# mount /dev/mmcblk0p1 /media/mmc2 > mount: Mounting /dev/mmcblk0p1 on /media/mmc2 failed: No such file or > directory > Nokia-N800-51:~# ls -l /dev/mmcblk0p1 > ls: /dev/mmcblk0p1: No such file or directory > > Where did my SD card go? :-) Hm. Maybe the internal one is mounted only on bootup? >> > Is there a file that the crawler generates that I can look at? >> >> Do: >> strings /home/user/.meta_storage > meta.txt >> >> and read the meta.txt. I don't know whether the player uses that >> database directly or communicates with the crawler instead though. > > I don't have strings. Grrr. You can copy the whole .meta_storage onto PC and then use strings there. Not sure whether Windows has this utility though. >> > I'll install fsck on the unit. >> >> You can do fsck the card FAT on the you Linux PC (or on Windows). > > Done under XP, no errors. Ok, I guess the reason for 5 mins is the large number of mp3s. I hope one doesn't need to wait all 5 mins until any of them appear in the Media player, because then it's a very bad performance problem, otherwise it's not so serious. - Eero
