[ubuntu-uk] odd hd activity

[Alan Pope]

Hi kris,

On Thu, 2007-10-18 at 15:42 +0100, Kris Marsh wrote:
> >From here, it's likely to be whatever is taking up 70-100% CPU usage.
> If it's trackerd or beagle-daemon, then you have two choices: kill /
> uninstall it, or be patient.

Or tune it :)

If indeed it is tracker, then you can change some settings in System -->
Preferences --> Indexing preferences. You can for example throttle the
indexing (Performance tab), tell it not to index file contents, and
ignore certain file types (like movies and music files).

Cheers,
Al.
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