tracker causing very high disk useage/thrashing
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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linux (Ubuntu) |
Expired
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Medium
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: tracker
I've been tracking gutsy for a few months now, recently i noticed my disk just seems to be constantly in use (its not very quiet in this machine). The only things that seem to be running according to top are trackerd processes. They are reniced to 19 which seems sensible, but the disk useage is just crazy.
Doing a full dd dump of the entire disk takes roughly 15minutes. However the tracker processes just seem to run for ages (>1hour) and cause the disk to be constantly in use for this whole time. Every now and then the system just seems to stall and things that take < 1 second usually (opening a terminal window is a good test of this) end up taking approximately 10 seconds. During these stalls the whole interface seems to be unresponsive too.
I dont know exactly whats going on that causes this, but the only consistent element when investigating this has been 3 trackerd process, niced at 19, using roughly 9% cpu each (although this cpu use percentage does jump around alot, varying from 1% to 10%).
Related branches
Changed in tracker: | |
importance: | Undecided → High |
We have improved this in svn. It should not slow down other processes accessing to disk (such as compilation or check outs)
indexing can take a long time but you can configure it to exclude certain directories if you have tons of indexable content (preferences- >indexing preferences)
feel free to reopen this bug if problems persist (IE if it is highly detrimental to other running apps )