Comment 4 for bug 132741

i observe the same - tracker is running with nice 19, but it is still hugging the system such that it is unusable when tracker starts. (my indexing is seeming completely done )- but any start up the system is unusable for a couple of minutes (this is especially when i sit there and want to use it).

hints - can you start tracker only after there was no user activiity for some time?
and stop it immediately if the user does something.
(example: searching for a mail in a mailbox takes 2 minutes (mailbox is not extremely large) - and few seconds after tracker has completed.

IMHO it is not ready for primetime and should not be enabled in the final gutsy version (i vote for delivering, but not for enabling by default: it is a show stopper! as was beagle.... and the same goes for similar systems on windows, fortunately).

good luck with optimization. i do not see a lot of cpu or disk activity, but nevertheless, it hugs the system and does nothing else to be done. why?

(and it does not index mbox mailboxes which are not in evolution - despite showing an interface. i wait for this fix)