I was searching for a way to disable this, I hope I have found the right place in configuration settings...
I opened in menus : Applications System tools Preferences Searching & indexing I unchecked everything in "semantics" It looks like there's an option missing in "limits", I would like to choose "never" for "background content indexing", but this option is not provided here... This is manual translation from my installed lang to english so may not be 100% accurate -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to mediascanner2 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1398614 Title: mediascanner-service-2.0 using large amounts of CPU Status in mediascanner2 package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Each time I plug my external USB hard disk the mediascanner-service process is activ and is using large amount of CPU for long minutes without interruption. I have the same problem in utopic and vivid ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.04 Package: mediascanner2.0 0.105+15.04.20141030.1-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-25.33-generic 3.16.7 Uname: Linux 3.16.0-25-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.14.7-0ubuntu10 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: Unity Date: Wed Dec 3 00:29:43 2014 InstallationDate: Installed on 2011-05-26 (1286 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1) SourcePackage: mediascanner2 UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to vivid on 2013-11-26 (371 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mediascanner2/+bug/1398614/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
