On Tue, 2012-01-03 at 11:15 -0500, Genes MailLists wrote: > On 01/03/2012 09:16 AM, Denys Vlasenko wrote: > > > # cat /proc/meminfo >/tmp/1; killall tracker-store; sleep 1; cat > > /proc/meminfo >/tmp/2; cat /tmp/1 /tmp/2 | grep MemFree > > MemFree: 1940372 kB > > MemFree: 1963860 kB > > > > As you see, killing it on my machine freed over 23 megs worth of pages. > > > As far as I know tracker is a feature of Gnome 3 - there may be a way > to turn it off tho it may need a gnome registry tweak ... yeah other day this tracker or other from gnome , note that I use KDE , begins track down my external hdd via NAS , which have 1 Tera , IIRC . I notice because can't unmount my smbfs . rpm -ql tracker /etc/xdg/autostart/tracker-miner-flickr.desktop /etc/xdg/autostart/tracker-miner-fs.desktop /etc/xdg/autostart/tracker-store.desktop I agree, at least for non-gnome users , tracker shouldn't be in autostart. BTW I just remove it Removing: tracker x86_64 0.12.8-2.fc16 @updates 4.8 M Removing for dependencies: brasero x86_64 3.2.0-1.fc16 @anaconda-0 8.9 M brasero-nautilus x86_64 3.2.0-1.fc16 @anaconda-0 45 k devede noarch 3.20.0-1.fc16 @rpmfusion-free-updates 3.7 M grilo-plugins x86_64 0.1.18-1.fc16 @updates 440 k media-explorer x86_64 0.3.2-1.fc16 @updates 2.7 M totem x86_64 1:3.2.1-2.fc16 @anaconda-0 8.2 M -- Sérgio M. B. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
