[gutsy] trackerd vs. strigidaemon
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
strigi (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
|
Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
tracker (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
Medium
|
Unassigned |
Bug Description
After installing gutsy from a daily iso and then doing apt-get install kubuntu-desktop, when loggin into
KDE, I get both strigidaemon and trackerd running. The result on a brand new distro on which I've
rsync'ed a few gigabytes of stuff off my previous one is that the box is totally DOSed for at least half a day
(I killed them after that)... you get vague responsiveness of the GUI every 15 seconds or so, pretty much
unuseable due to IO load.
In addition, I haven't figured out any obvious way in the GUI to disable either daemon. I don't want
them indexing my disk but it isn't clear to me what is controlling them or launching them. They
don't seem to be trigged by initd and strigidaemon doesn't seem to appear as a KDE service either.
Could you tell us which tracker version do you have? If it is 0.6.2, then it's a know issue, but it should be fixed (or at least improved a lot) with tracker 0.6.3, which is already in the repositories.
So if you don't have tracker 0.6.3, update to it and let us know whether responsiveness improves or not.
Also, you can disable the tracker daemon in System> Preferences> Sessions, or change tracker's preferences in System> Preferences> Indexing.