trackerd is niced +19 so cpu will nose dive to 1% if another app uses cpu. Indexing needs lots of cpu which no indexer can escape from. Switching to another will not change this (unless you consider slowing indexing to such a crawl that it takes days to index which you can do already in tracker-prefs by setting the throttle slider)
Only slow downs Im aware of is during index merging and these are 100% due to I/O issues during index merging I/O can become overloaded which can starve other processes of disk due to bugs in kernel (lots of small writes kills performance on ext3 but hoepfully ext4 will have pre allocation to alleviate this) In any event, next version of tracker (due this week) now pauses automatically during merges whenever the user moves the mouse or presses a key/button so there should not be any perceptible slow downs. tracker will be the only indexer AFAIK that has this feature and in addition to other tweaks will have very low impact on system (except when its idle of course). -- Tracker should not be enabled by default until it doesn't clobber everything https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/132741 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
