[Gutsy] trackerd makes Eclipse 3.3 + MyEclipse 6.0 unstable, also is cpu hog

[Misja]

I just installed the Gutsy Gibbon beta (btw excellent work!) and started working with Eclipse (the IDE).
Although I have encountered no problems with Gutsy elsewhere, I noticed that the trackerd process made Eclipse unstable.
Errors occurred when opening editors or when just rebuilding a project.
I used to never have any such problem when still using Feisty.
I am using Eclipse 3.3 in combination with MyEclipse 6.0 and Java 6.0

I found out that trackerd was the problem because of some other issue; my pc became kind of slow sometimes; at those times I heard my harddisk being busy although I was not doing anything special with it. In the system monitor I then noticed a 'sleeping' process called 'trackerd' that was taking up to 25% of my cpu usage.
So I removed the trackerd indexing service using Synaptic package manager; the trackerd process was still running afterwards so I killed that process in the System monitor.

After that I have not encountered any such problem anymore.

I have been Google-ing a little and found other people with similar problems. Somebody noted that it was possible to exclude directories from the trackerd service; although it might be a solution to exclude my Eclipse workspace from trackerd, I don't think Gutsy should force users to first find that trackerd is the problem and then to do some workaround. A better solution IMO would be to disable trackerd by default until it is completely safe.

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort (pochu)]

The Beta release ships tracker 0.6.2, whereas the archive has 0.6.3, which should fix those slowdown issues.

Could please upgrade your installation, and restart trackerd? (loging out and in again should restart it).

Thanks,
Emilio

[Misja (misja-alma)]

Apologize but I have to adjust my bug-report a little.
It is true that trackerd was slowing down my pc, but the unstability of
Eclipse was because Gutsy replaced my installed (Sun) Java by gij Java. gij
is known to make Eclipse unstable.
I have replaced gij by my old Sun Java again and now Eclipse is stable.

I am willing to try out trackerd 0.6.3 for you, but how exactly should I
proceed to install it from the archive?

Regards,
Misja

On 10/2/07, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> The Beta release ships tracker 0.6.2, whereas the archive has 0.6.3,
> which should fix those slowdown issues.
>
> Could please upgrade your installation, and restart trackerd? (loging
> out and in again should restart it).
>
> Thanks,
> Emilio
>
> ** Changed in: tracker (Ubuntu)
> Status: Triaged => Incomplete
>
> --
> [Gutsy] trackerd makes Eclipse 3.3 + MyEclipse 6.0 unstable, also is cpu
> hog
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/148202
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort (pochu)]

Please, report the unstability caused by gij in another report.

For upgrading to tracker 0.6.3, go to system>administration>update manager.

Do 'dpkg -l | grep tracker' and paste here the output, so we know what tracker release you have.

Thanks,
Emilio

[Misja (misja-alma)]

Updating tracker in the update manager just gave me the message that my
system was up to date. That makes sense because I only switched to Gutsy
yesterday.

The output you were asking for is:

ii libtracker-gtk0 0.6.3-0ubuntu1
GTK+ widgets for apps that use tracker
ii libtrackerclient0 0.6.3-0ubuntu1
metadata database, indexer and search tool -
rc tracker-search-tool 0.6.3-0ubuntu1
metadata database, indexer and search tool -

Cheers,
Misja

On 10/2/07, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> Please, report the unstability caused by gij in another report.
>
> For upgrading to tracker 0.6.3, go to system>administration>update
> manager.
>
> Do 'dpkg -l | grep tracker' and paste here the output, so we know what
> tracker release you have.
>
> Thanks,
> Emilio
>
> --
> [Gutsy] trackerd makes Eclipse 3.3 + MyEclipse 6.0 unstable, also is cpu
> hog
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/148202
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort (pochu)]

So can you confirm that, after a reboot, you still have a big slowdown with tracker?

[Misja (misja-alma)]

I have not tried tracker anymore after I removed it. So I can't confirm.

On 10/3/07, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> So can you confirm that, after a reboot, you still have a big slowdown
> with tracker?
>
> --
> [Gutsy] trackerd makes Eclipse 3.3 + MyEclipse 6.0 unstable, also is cpu
> hog
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/148202
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>

[Jamie McCracken (jamiemcc-blueyonder)]

closing bug - pls reopen if it crops up again

[Benjamin Moll (qjuh)]

I have tracker 0.6.3-0ubuntu2 installed and I have a massive slowdown because of it. It uses about 170MB of RAM and that makes all other programs slow down.

[Benjamin Moll (qjuh)]

problem still exists with new version

[Jamie McCracken (jamiemcc-blueyonder)]

Qjuh,

can you attach log file in ~/.local/share/tracker

jamie

[Jamie McCracken (jamiemcc-blueyonder)]

we have fixed mem leaks so trackerd should never use more than say 30MB when indexing

I assume mem usage was what was slowing your system down so marking this as fixed

pls retest when soon to be released 0.6.4 hits repos and let us know if problem persists

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort (pochu)]

0.6.4 has been uploaded to Hardy. Could you please give it a run and let us know whether this is still an issue?