The problem for me is that it uses too much memory.  Using a 1.5GB
resident set (of 3.0GB total virtual) on a 2GB system means that
everything else has to use swap, even if you're at +19 nice.  And when
IO is highly-contended already, even swap is slower than usual.  It's
actually so bad I'm losing keyboard events in X.  The funny thing is
that I can't just change the settings because it's another user's
trackerd process running, even four hours after she has logged out.  She
only rarely uses this computer and her home directory contains just 250
jpgs and 4 docs and she doesn't use Evolution or Totem.

Having read similar bug reports going back to early 2007, I can see that
a fix is nowhere in sight, leaving me little choice but to remove the
whole package.

I also freed up about 1GB of disk space by doing this after uninstall:

sudo rm -rf /home/*/.cache/tracker /home/*/.local/share/tracker

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