Hardy slowdown, slow video refresh, Samba Issues et al...

[Che Guebeara]

This has probably been discussed to death on here but a couple things I
discovered after installing Hardy via the upgrade...

Even though I didn't want it preinstalled and after disabling the
Tracker applet the daemon was still running under the hood to the tune
of 468 megs of ram.  This just about slam dunked my Gnome, and with the
psycho indexing of Tracker was unable to establish the Samba
connections to my in house server.  For a bit I thought I was going to
have to dump the system and reload. I went into KDE to see if Tracker
would follow, being intimately tied to Nautilus vs. Konqueror.  At
first the system ran fine (albeit KDE is mighty hokey after Gnome...)
but within about 4 hours of use the same system slowdowns started,
video refresh slowed to about a minute for 1280 x 1024 and I lost my
remote connections again.

Checked out 'top' in a terminal and surprise... trackerd was running at
486 megs of ram again. I killed the pid and poof... the system is
actually running like it is supposed to.

On other forums there are strong warnings about uninstalling the daemon
(the applet appears to be fine to punt...) since the daemon is
intimately involved with Nautilus but at least killing the PID might
fix some folks system issues on a temporary basis.

Bonus of killing the daemon... I can ACTUALLY right click on my desktop
again and my icons came back...

*happy happy joy joy*

Mark