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 · 04:01 AM

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.

October 25th, 2007	#1
nave.notnilc First Cup of Ubuntu Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Deep space. Beans: 11 Ubuntu 6.06 Dapper	trackerd? 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?

October 25th, 2007	#2
caffienefree Gee! These Aren't Roasted! Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: New Jersey, USA Beans: 192 Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope	Re: trackerd? 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.

October 25th, 2007	#3
shad0w_walker Extra Foam Sugar Free Ubuntu Join Date: Jul 2006 Beans: 845 Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron	Re: trackerd? 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. __________________ My baby: Intel Core2Duo E8400 (3.45Ghz) 6MB L2 Cache Asus Striker II Formula (RoG) 4Gb (2x2GB) Corsair XMS2 DDR2 6400(800Mhz)

October 28th, 2007	#4
victorgreen Gee! These Aren't Roasted! Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: USA Beans: 167 Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron	Re: trackerd? How do I disable it?

October 28th, 2007	#5
FuturePilot Can't Get Enough 64bit Ubuntu Join Date: Oct 2006 Beans: 3,946 Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope	Re: trackerd? 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. __________________ Blog \| Registered Ubuntu User #15350 \| Zsh FTW \| Please use bittorrent to download Karmic \| Please read the Karmic release notes for known issues

October 28th, 2007	#6
Frak Tin Foil Hat: Armed Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Oklahoma My beans are hidden!	Re: trackerd? 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. __________________ This 'users are idiots, and are confused by functionality' mentality of Gnome is a disease. If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will use it. - Linus Torvalds

October 28th, 2007	#7
daicoden 5 Cups of Ubuntu Join Date: Apr 2007 Beans: 16	Re: trackerd? 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 Last edited by daicoden; October 28th, 2007 at 04:01 AM..

October 28th, 2007	#8
cuby Just Give Me the Beans! Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Portugal Beans: 64 Ubuntu Karmic Koala (testing)	Re: trackerd? 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.

October 28th, 2007	#9
Frak Tin Foil Hat: Armed Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Oklahoma My beans are hidden!	Re: trackerd? 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. __________________ This 'users are idiots, and are confused by functionality' mentality of Gnome is a disease. If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will use it. - Linus Torvalds

October 28th, 2007	#10
n3tfury Day Old Decaf Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Upstate NY Beans: 796 Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon	Re: trackerd? disable/get rid of it. my laptop was rendered almost useless when i installed Gutsy.

Thread Tools
Show Printable Version Email this Page
Display Modes
Linear Mode Switch to Hybrid Mode Switch to Threaded Mode