On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 10:22 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 2011-09-09 at 19:31 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote: >> On Fri, 9 Sep 2011 17:39:32 +0100, PR (Peter) wrote: >> >> > >> 6) Tracker (apart from having crashed) started to appear at the top of "top" >> > >> with heavy CPU usage. I hope that won't go on like that. >> > > >> > > To fight that, I've stopped the mining, then used >> > > >> > > yum -y install tracker-search-tool >> > > >> > > to install two more tracker related executables. That made it possible to run >> > > >> > > /usr/bin/tracker-preferences >> > > >> > > where I could turn of the indexing. Kind of stupid to index removable >> > > media by default. >> > >> > Nothings really changed then, its always been somewhat of a CPU hog, >> > although generally most packaging people had a separate tracker >> > subpackage so you could just remove it completely. It seems >> > grilo-plugins has a tracker interface, it looks like the tracker >> > component could be split out into a subpackage, not sure what impact >> > that would have on the grilo package as a while though. >> >> I can assure you, it's the first time I've noticed this tracker activity >> and immediately considered it a major annoyance. I don't think I've had >> this with F-15. And with F-16 it has been like that only since 1-2 days. >> >> $ rpm -qi tracker|grep ^In >> Install Date: Wed 07 Sep 2011 11:38:44 PM CEST >> >> I'd like to turn it off completely. Or remove it. If that's not possible, >> it's a blocker. > > In F15 nothing very critical depended on tracker, and it may well not > even have been installed by default. > > In F16, through grilo-plugins, shotwell and totem both depend on it, so > it's harder to get shot of. Actually its only grilo-plugins that depends on it, totem then depends on grilo-plugins and shotwell on totem. The tracker support in grilo-plugins can easily be split into a grilo-plugins-tracker subpackage so that would be the easy way to lose tracker and people that wish to use tracker can install the plugin. Peter -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
