Gusty is slow!

NoOp glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Wed Oct 17 00:06:22 UTC 2007


On 10/16/2007 09:41 AM, Mario Vukelic wrote:

> 
> Regarding Tracker: note that it actually slows down things only very
> rarely, A few minutes after booting and when you create new files that
> it needs to index. On my machine, it uses practically zero resources
> practically all the time.
> 
> 

I had to remove/purge tracker from all of the systems that I upgraded to
Gutsy. It kept the CPU's at 100% and made the systems unusable.  In the
interest of Gutsy I hope that trackerd et al is held back. Eventually it
may be a good thing, but IMHO it's a bloat that isn't worth it. Like
beagle and the others, it should *only* be available as a package in the
repos for those that want to install it. It's a nice add-on for those
that want it, but I don't see that it serves any useful purpoese as a
default. Further info on Tracker is available here:
http://www.gnome.org/projects/tracker/

Interesting regarding bug reports etc about tracker. If you look at:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/tracker/+bugs
you only find a few minor bugs (6). But If you look at tracker source:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tracker/
there are 60 bug reports. Sometimes launchpad searches are strange... or
maybe I've not figured out launchpad yet.








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