Comment 2 for bug 1548051

I upgraded to 16.04 and the file indexing was causing my whole PC to suffer from temporary lockups. Even remote SSH logins wouldn't respond.

I have over 200GB of stuff in my home directory, and I've had problems with file indexing ever since KDE introduced it. I've had to manually disable it EVERY time I've upgraded.

Unfortunately, this time around I misdiagnosed the problem, and spent a week thinking I had a bad hard drive, then maybe wonky kernel/graphics drivers (I was getting "NMI watchdog: BUG" messages on the console). Huge waste of time.

Why can't the file-indexing get it right? Why can't the damn thing just STAY OFF across upgrades?