Hi all,
Once again, on my laptop, I have had to issue a:
sudo dpkg --purge tracker libdeskbar-tracker tracker-utils \
tracker-search-tool
rm -rf ~/.cache/tracker/
to get rid of this CPU sapping and disk filling parasite. I noticed
it when I had a compile running slower than it should have. I ran
top and sure enough, there was trackerd chewing away my CPU and after
a bit of fiddling with find, there was a 900 megabyte tracker cache
file.
The thing is, I know I had to delete this thing when I upgraded to
Feisty and again when I upgraded to Gutsy some months ago, but now I
had to do it again. It must have been re-installed when I upgraded
or installed something else.
As a preventative measure, in case it gets installed again, I edited
~/.config/tracker/tracker.cfg and set the following variables:
LowMemoryMode=true
InitialSleep=45000000
WatchDirectoryRoots=~/.cache/tracker
EnableWatching=false
I also deleted all 900 megabytes in ~/.cache/tracker and then made
that directory read only.
On my laptop I have 800 megabytes of PDF (technical papers, PhD theses
etc), and about a gigabyte of source code. The source code includes
multple Bzr branches of my own stuff and a bunch of stuff off the net,
from tarballs and from public CVS/Bzr/SVN/etc repositories. The stuff
from the net can hang around for as little as a couple of hours before
being deleted.
For the source code, I simply don't want something as stupid as tracker
digging through this stuff.
For the PDFs, I actually would like to have something that indexes
it and allows me to search, but again I think tracker is way to stupid
for this task.
So, does anyone have anything positive to say about trackerd?
Erik
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