Comment 6 for bug 135115

Tom,

0.6.2 has a bug that leaks memory so I guess check rss of trackerd with top.

If free memory is in short supply the kernel will have a hard time caching updates to disk.

To debug iowait state run vmstat 1

the last column wa shows the percent of cpu waiting for IO. If its consistently above 90% then thats very bad and will account for severe loss of desktop responsiveness

If memory is not an issue then its likely a kernel issue or the index files (file-index.db and email-index.db) in $HOME/.cache/tracker are > 1gb in size (sqlite is only scalable up to about a GB or so)