Hey Martin, It's just an inotify monitor. Read how that works, you will see what's the performance (close to zero, and everyone uses them, not just tracker).
Don't take it bad please, but I wouldn't like to spam this bug report more, we should settle down on basic knowledge about how the kernel inotify and file system works and its implications and impact on performance. Hmm I think there is nothing more new to discuss in this bug report so far, looking forward to more questions/feedback. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1666676 Title: Enable tracker by default for Unity too Status in nautilus package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: For Nautilus' built-in search to not be very slow, Nautilus needs to use tracker for search. This is especially important since it's being seriously proposed for Ubuntu 17.10 that we drop the "type-ahead search" patch that reverted the removal of that feature by Nautilus years ago. (LP: #1666681) To not cripple Ubuntu GNOME, it was previously decided to let Nautilus build against tracker but not use that functionality on Unity. See this patch: https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu- desktop/nautilus/ubuntu/view/head:/debian/patches/ubuntu_tracker_only_on_GNOME.patch This bug is requesting that patch be dropped and the extra tracker components be allowed into main and installed by default in Unity. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/1666676/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
