Comment 38 for bug 131983

As a first time Ubuntu user/installer/developer (7.10 64-bit gusty goatee or suchlike), here's my 2-cents worth.
(trackerd version 0.6.3 on Pentium 3.4 dual with 2Gb ram)

Almost everything has been impressive, apart from some very irritating periodic system freezes and an unresponsive gui. These almost made me give up on Ubuntu.

I have spent the best part of 2 days trying to get dual-head *something" working other than looking at cloned versions of a desktop. Whenever logging back in to see what the latest changes have done, something has kicked in and caused everything and anything to do with windowing to almost freeze, giving the impression that there's a problem in the graphics changes that have just been made.

I discovered trackerd and it's cpu hogging by accident, having given up on the dual head thing and moved on to installing netbeans, in order to get some proper work done. When netbeans started to freeze, I had a look at cpu usage and discovered the culprit. A google for "Ubuntu trackerd" revealed this and another thread.

This utility, in it's present state, blows big-time.
What on earth are you guys doing releasing this on an unsuspecting public? (ie. me)

I do not want, or expect, any utility to hog my cpu to such an extent that gui work is almost impossible, or the cooling fan is screaming non-stop when the system is otherwise idle, no matter how good it is supposed to be. Period.

Needless to say, the best advice received from this thread has been "uninstall" - done.