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tracker package

  1. Bug #131983
  2. Comment #57

Comment 57 for bug 131983

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Emilio Pozuelo Monfort (pochu) wrote : Re: [Bug 131983] Re: [gutsy] trackerd kills disk io

Kevin Ross wrote:
> I just installed ubuntu 7.10 a couple days ago. trackerd is indeed
> consuming a tremendous amount of cpu time:
>
> $ uptime
> 09:35:28 up 2 days, 18:42, 5 users, load average: 3.13, 3.15, 3.14
>
> $ ps -C trackerd
> PID TTY TIME CMD
> 23057 ? 1-01:34:56 trackerd

That could be caused by the initial index. Have you rebooted since trackerd did
its initial index?

>
> Any explicit advice on how to remove this would be appreciated. Assume I
> know very little about how to disable this thing. What detailed steps
> are needed?

I'd appreciate if you could test tracker 0.6.4 from
https://launchpad.net/~pochu/+archive first. If you still want to remove it, you
can do it from System>Preferences>Sessions.

Cheers

>
> Thanks
> Kevin
>