Is Your Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon Running Too Slow?

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Some days ago I noticed Woodcarver, the workstation where I spend most of my time, running too slow. A quick look at top found the problem: trackerd, the daemon used by Meta Tracker.

And even when I like the idea of having a desktop search engine I haven't really needed it yet, it seems I'm kinda organized.

I read in Ubuntu Forums that we still have some bugs in the software, at least in versions 0.6.2 and 0.6.3, thus trackerd eats too much memory and CPU during indexing.

I know it's possible to configure Meta Tracker from System > Preferences >Indexing Preferences but I didn't have much time to run tests and opted for a quick sudo apt-get remove tracker. Everything is running normally now.

So, if you notice Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon too slow, take a look at top, trackerd could be devouring your resources.

If anybody has suggestions to keep trackerd running without a big impact on performance we'd like to know them.

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