Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: tracker
Hello. I have Ubuntu Gutsy installed since a long time ago on a work
computer (and a couple at home).
Today I got really annoyed by the fact that during the last month or so
I can't remember a single moment when trackerd wasn't trashing the drive
madly. I have tried all settings from quickest to slowest, I leave my
computers running during the night, but it's still running all the time.
It's actually annoyingly _loud_, even with acoustic management turned up
to "quiet". It also makes things run a bit slower all the time; not as
much as you'd expect from seeing the hard-drive load applet turned all
the way up, but still noticeable. (Things run visibly better when I kill
trackerd.)
The worst part of this is that trackerd doesn't report _anything_ about
why it's taking up all available IO. "tracker-status" (which wasn't even
installed by default) only tells me "it's indexing". "tracker-stats"
tells me something like "Files : 210463", which I don't even know what
it means. I suppose it's "files indexed", but it could be anything else;
what's worse, it doesn't seem to change very much, despite the fact that
the drive keeps grinding away.
It really needs at least a tiny applet (even a command line tool) to
tell users exactly how much work did it do, how long did it took, _and_
how much more there is to do, _and_ an estimate of how long it will
take, however inaccurate. A progress bar (that's obviously working)
would make it much easier to tolerate it.
** Affects: tracker (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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trackerd keeps trashing the hard drive incessantly, gives almost no status info
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/151322
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