Comment 3 for bug 131983

Please make use of the No Watch folder setting in tracker-preferences to omit path roots (roots include sub dirs)

If you have a massive home folder then it makes sense to omit stuff that does not need indexing

If you are a developer then pls make use of this for source code. If you want source code indexed then I suggest using the crawl folders option

I have noticed slow downs when tracker is not running when upgrading (try any heavy disk activity like rhythmbox looking for music files) and it slows desktop. A clean install has removed this problem and I dont know why?

We are changing our index format to be smaller and more compact which should lessen disk seek activity on it (current qdbm hashtable fragments badly during initial indexing and can consume way too much disk space - we optimise this only after initial indexing is done but that is not sufficient for your case and others and we will remedy this)

O_DIRECT and O_NOATIME will be used in the next version.

We also plan on using index merging which should lessen the effect of updating a huge index (which will be very slow to update if its bigger than available free RAM)