tracker-miner-fs consuming lots of CPU?

[Michael Schwendt]

On Sun, 09 Oct 2011 07:48:41 -0400, JK (Jonathan) wrote:

> 
> 
> On 10/09/2011 05:41 AM, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> > Last month's "New bugs in updates" thread contained a subthread on
> > "tracker search tool". There are a couple of issues with tracker.
> >
> > * It indexes removable devices by default.
> Doesn't appear to be the case with my F16 beta install. I didn't turn 
> off removable device indexing, but it's turned off.
> > * The "tracker-search-tool" package is not installed by default.
> > It contains /usr/bin/tracker-preferences where you can configure and
> > turn off the indexing.
> It's "tracker-ui-tools", and I found that on my own.

To be fair, it has been renamed recently. %changelog:
| Replace the search-tool sub-package with more appropriately named ui-tools

> > * Unless new dependencies change further, it may be less easy to
> > uninstall tracker completely.
> Yes, I noticed, for example, that brasero depends on tracker, which is 
> annoying, since I want brasero but don't want tracker.
> 
> However, none of this has anything to do with the CPU problem I observed 
> which appears to be bug 742768 
> <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=742768>.

In the thread I referred to I initially described my observation:
| 6) Tracker (apart from having crashed) started to appear at the top
| of "top" with heavy CPU usage. I hope that won't go on like that.

To which at least one reply was:
| [...] its always been somewhat of a CPU hog,

Not considering that for example it has not been installed on F-15.
Now with major CPU usage and fans spinning up, I haven't had the patience
to sit and wait only to find out whether it would finish some day.

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