On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 4:47 PM, Tomasz Torcz <tomek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 02:32:28PM +0100, Denys Vlasenko wrote: >> In my opinion, a "search tool and indexer", even if it brands itself >> "a powerful desktop-neutral first class object database", has no valid >> technical reasons to run on the machine all the time, even at times when >> nothing is using it, as was the case at the moment I took the above snapshot. > > Well, indexer need to index files. And react to new files appearing. Which > brings in another wart of tracker - in default Fedora installation, it is set > to work "while other application are running, except for initial crawl". This > makes computer barely usable on second login, while tracker indexes gigabytes > of text files in my ~. At least on rotating rust storage, SSD may be better. > And running in idle IO priority doesn't help much. > Tracker should be set to run "only when computer is not being used". But then, > tracker-preferences is not installed by default. > > Also, 30 GiB in .cache/tracker is a bit extreme when rest of my ~ is 4 GiB. I also discovered that three different tracker processes were running in my xfce desktop! However since I don't see a need for them for me, nor do I want them, it was relatively easy to prevent them from executing on desktop startup by going to The Applications menu, then Settings->"Session and Startup" and under the "Application Autostart" tab then switch off "Tracker File System Miner", "Tracker Store" and "Tracker Miner for Flickr" as three separate switches - after that there are no tracker processes running after the next login..... and if necessary the cache files can be removed as well. I guess there are analogous switches in KDE too that might help make KDE actually work as a much snappier desktop? In fact I abandonned KDE for xfce because it was simply too slow logging in for my liking. All this in f16 but others may have a different experience of course? If this makes KDE a usable desktop again I might even try it when I have a bit of spare time! -- mike c -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
