Tracker is turned off by default on solaris. but it is enabled on ubuntu. > 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 > ====================================== > Bob Friesenhahn > bfriesen at simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ > GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/ > > _______________________________________________ > desktop-discuss mailing list > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org >
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