On Wed, 15 Oct 2008, James Cornell wrote:

> You can disable .DS_STORE creation on network filesystems, which should ease 
> some of the stress.  You can also outright disable the indexer or tell it 
> places not to do it.

This bug entry shows the considerable pain that trackerd has been 
causing for Ubuntu users:

   https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tracker/+bug/131983

A Google search shows thousands of cries of anguish regarding this 
search indexer.

It seems that Windows and Mac have decided that the core focus of the 
OS should be to allow users to perform "Google" like searches of their 
files.  This causes lots of performance problems during normal system 
use.  Perhaps I am weird but I use a heirarchical filesystem layout 
and intelligent naming to help me keep track of things and rarely need 
to consult some sort of search "oracle" as if I had been struck by a 
stroke or advanced senility.

This indexer tool should definitely default to "off" for Solaris.

Bob
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Bob Friesenhahn
bfriesen at simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/
GraphicsMagick Maintainer,    http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/


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