trackerd?

[nave.notnilc]

I just upgraded to 7.10 from 7.04, and there is a process called 'trackerd' that is eating up a fair chunk of processing power. What does it do? Is it necessary?

[caffienefree]

I believe trackerd is the indexing daemon for the tracker search tool. Execute tracker-search-tool in the terminal to bring up the search prompt.

[shad0w_walker]

Trackerd is a background process that indexs your files for quicker searches, It's not needed as the normal search tool works fine with out. If you want disable it you can do with out any harm, but the usage should settle down to be very low after its finished its first run.

[victorgreen]

How do I disable it?

[FuturePilot]

It will eventually settle itself down after it indexes everything. But if you want to disable it. System>Preferences>Indexing Preferences. Uncheck the two check boxes in the first tab. You can also go System>Preferences>Sessions and uncheck the Tracker entry.

[Frak]

It indexes then shuts down, but you can end process if you want to, as it isn't essential to the computer itself in anyway.

[daicoden]

It does not seem to be listening to the priority. It may have a nice of 19 but it is constantly hogging 1 CPU on a dual core system and making everything else run through the other one. The memory is constantly through the roof, 896 MB. I turned up the priority so it would finish overnight but it is not ending.

It says it's status is constantly sleeping but it also has a processor and memory percentage.

Is this a bug?

Thanks

[cuby]

There's a bug report in lunchpad:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...er/+bug/153319

And a lot of other bugs in:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tracker

It seems this tracker was not so ready to be released in the wild.

[Frak]

2 things
1) Tracker is Alpha, which means it probably has some problems (beagle was stable)
2) Ubuntu usually runs at 95% RAM (though this is probably a tracker bug), but when memory is available, Ubuntu caches it so other programs will run faster.

[n3tfury]

disable/get rid of it. my laptop was rendered almost useless when i installed Gutsy.