Comment 41 for bug 131983

Well, first of all there are two separate issues---the 100% CPU issue and the disk hogging issue. For more on the disk hogging issue see https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/155244 and its duplicates.

Since 0.6.3, the 100% CPU issue has been gone for me, though I have a relatively fast system, so if throttle is set to 0 it might still be an issue for some. However, the disk hogging issue is a major one, and since it silently fills up disk space at a slow rate, it might quietly be affecting a lot of users.

Jamie, for every one of us who reports here, there are likely hundreds that experience the same problems but don't know it or don't know how to report it. Frankly, before tracker incorporated sqlite, it seemed fairly stable... most of the problems seem to be related to the new sqlite backend.

I believe that whenever the fixes you are discussing are ready, they should be pushed into the critical systems update queue in gutsy (rather than waiting for hardy).

And I agree that catching a SIGSEGV is a bad idea.