System high activity

[Luiz Alberto Medaets]

My system is a Asus A7N8X-X motherboard with 512 M of DDR400 memory, a AMD XP3200 CPU , two HD's, and two DVD / CD recorder. On IDE 0 Master I have my Windows OS and on IDE 0 Slave I have my Ubuntu OS, on IDE 1 Master I have a DVD RW drive and on IDE 1 Slave I have a combo drive.
I'm very new with Ubuntu, and have spent two days to install Ubuntu 7.10 on IDE 0 Slave HD (I think there is a bug also in grub, but that is another report).
Finally when it got installed I noticed that some minutes after booting, the HD began with a non stop activity, and the system began to get slower and slower.

Using the System Monitor:
Just after booting:
- HD almost no activity
- CPU 4%
- User memory 85M of 503M =17%
- Used Swap 0 of 1.4G = 0%

After 5 minutes
- HD w/ no interruption
- CPU 10%
- User memory 494M of 503M =98%
- Used Swap 526 of 1.4G = 36.4%
- Tracker 215M

After 10 minutes
- HD w/ no interruption
- CPU 6%
- User memory 490M of 503M =98%
- Used Swap 720 of 1.4G = 49%
- Tracker 440M

After 15 minutes
- HD w/ no interruption
- CPU 6%
- User memory 482M of 503M =96%
- Used Swap 734 of 1.4G = 50%
- Tracker 428M

At this point, the mouse hardly move and to open any program was taking minutes.
After disabling Tracker on System – Preferences – Sessions the problem ended.
As I didn't find any documentation about Tracker, what it is for?
Regards,
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[Mario Young (mayeco)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This bug did not have a package associated with it, which is important for ensuring that it gets looked at by the proper developers. You can learn more about finding the right package at [WWW] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/FindRightPackage. I have classified this bug as a bug in linux-source.

[Luiz Alberto Medaets (megahertz)]

The executable is trackerd, that is launched every time you boot (Tracker on System – Preferences – Sessions) or when you ask for a search in Nautilus 2.20.0 File Browser.
Regards,
megahertz

[Luiz Alberto Medaets (megahertz)]

The executable is trackerd, that is launched every time you boot
(Tracker on System – Preferences – Sessions) or when you ask for a
search in Nautilus 2.20.0 File Browser.
Regards,
megahertz

On Sun, 2007-10-28 at 01:24 +0000, Mario Young wrote:
> Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make
> Ubuntu better. This bug did not have a package associated with it, which
> is important for ensuring that it gets looked at by the proper
> developers. You can learn more about finding the right package at [WWW]
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/FindRightPackage. I have classified this
> bug as a bug in linux-source.
>
> ** Changed in: linux-source-2.6.22 (Ubuntu)
> Sourcepackagename: None => linux-source-2.6.22
>
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Megahertz
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[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Thanks in advance.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

We are closing this bug report as it lacks the information, described in the previous comments, we need to investigate the problem further. However, please reopen it if you can give us the missing information and feel free to submit bug reports in the future.