<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.16.1"> </HEAD> <BODY> If Tracker is behaving weirdly, you can disable its indexing by going to System>Preferences>Indexing Preferences and unchecking "enable indexing" and "enable watching." If that doesn't work, you can stop trackerd from starting up by disabling Tracker in System>Preferences>Sessions. On Thu, 2007-11-15 at 22:05 +0000, Soo-Hyun Choi wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> </BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> On Nov 15, 2007 8:30 PM, Mario Vukelic <<A HREF="mailto:mario.vukelic@dantian.org">mario.vukelic@dantian.org</A>> wrote: </BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <BLOCKQUOTE> On Thu, 2007-11-15 at 19:08 +0000, Soo-Hyun Choi wrote: > Hi, > > Under my system (Ubuntu 7.10), the "trackerd" process is always > running and it consumes almost 100% CPU time. Is this an expected > behaviour or is it doing something else? </BLOCKQUOTE> </BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <BLOCKQUOTE> Can you specify "always" more precisely? I'm asking because for me, it initially consumed 99% CPU for a while (albeit with low priority, so it wouldn't actually slow anything else down), until it had indexed all my files. It also uses lots of CPU for a minute or so after login. This is to be expected, since it has to do it indexing work some time. </BLOCKQUOTE> </BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> Yes, it used to do that way - 99% CPU cycle consumption at login and stopped taking CPU times after like 10 mins or so. But, somehow, from a few days ago, it has been consuming 99% CPU times for about more than two days and it still uses such amount of CPU cycle now. Yes, it is niced with lower priority (nice level is 19 in my case), but it still burns my CPU as it (trackerd) keeps giving a full stress (almost 99%) to it. Killing "trackerd" process is the only way to stop that at this moment, which isn't a fun task every time you login (or start the system). </BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <BLOCKQUOTE> But after a while, once it had indexed everything, it stopped doing that. If in your case the situation continues for days or weeks, then it is probably a bug. There are some known bugs that cause this, see here: <A HREF="https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/+bugs?field.searchtext=tracker+cpu">https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/+bugs?field.searchtext=tracker+cpu</A> -- ubuntu-users mailing list <A HREF="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</A> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <A HREF="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</A> </BLOCKQUOTE> </BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> </BLOCKQUOTE> </BODY> </HTML>