On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 8:06 PM, mike cloaked <mike.cloaked@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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! I think tracker can be turned off centrally for KDE and XFCE by going to /etc/xdg/autostart/tracker-store.desktop Find the line: OnlyShowIn=GNOME;KDE;XFCE; Remove the KDE and XFCE bits. Similar for the other two tracker files in the same directory. tracker-miner-flickr.desktop tracker-miner-fs.desktop The only catch is that if a system update rewrites those files then it will sets them going again - Is there a foolproof way to stop them running in any desktop other than gnome? I wonder how many users actually want or need these? -- mike c -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
