Binary package hint: tracker
After upgrading a desktop from Ubuntu 7.04 to 7.10 my NFS server got very busy. I did recall the tracker tool, which I disabled on a laptop where I installed Ubuntu 7.10 as well, before it could cause any harm. This time I let it go, wondering if the result might be usable. I went out and came back after about two hours just to find the NFS server still very busy. I was already fearing, it would try to index the whole file system space, but found that it just ran out of disk space while writing the index data base in the user's home directory. Unfortunately, the tracker tool, even though it did report the problem, failed to act properly on it (that would be to clean up the mess and terminate) and instead continued to try to write the DB again and again, (and of course failed again and again) all the while causing significant load on the NFS server.
Side effect of this was, that my spam-filter (procmail/spamassassin) couldn't sort my e-mail, since the home directory was filled by the tracker tool...
This is being worked on upstream.
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