Public bug reported: Architecture: amd64 Version: 0.6.3-0ubuntu3
Trackerd seems to have a memory leak, I found this creating & deleting about 85 small (0-2k) temporary text files every minute. After 30 minutes the process was running at half speed, after 4 hours the process had virtually stopped and 'top' showed trackerd to have used up all of the physical memory and 77% of the swap. I switched off trackerd, rebooted and restarted the process, it has been running for a week since with no memory increase or performance degradation. Even if it worked perfectly trackerd should be OFF by default, as a DBA I know that you do not add indexes that impact the system performance unless there is a compelling reason, and the service provided by trackerd isn't. It is pointless on an 'ordinary' desktop with a small number of files in $HOME and there are better tools for searching large numbers of files. ** Affects: tracker (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- trackerd memory leak? https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/185093 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs