[opensuse] is "tracker" necessary?
Hi, since a recent update (OS 42.3), after booting my laptop all 8 processors run at 100%. After googling I found that it may be a program called tracker, and after I killed all it's processes (4 IIRC), all went back to normal. But after a new boot, the same started again. So I de-installed tracker with Yast. All seems fine, but I'd like to be sure: does my system need tracker for something or can I set tracker to taboo without any danger? Thanks! Daniel -- Daniel Bauer photographer Basel Málaga https://www.patreon.com/danielbauer https://www.daniel-bauer.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 25/04/2019 18.06, Daniel Bauer wrote:
Hi,
since a recent update (OS 42.3), after booting my laptop all 8 processors run at 100%.
After googling I found that it may be a program called tracker, and after I killed all it's processes (4 IIRC), all went back to normal. But after a new boot, the same started again.
So I de-installed tracker with Yast.
All seems fine, but I'd like to be sure: does my system need tracker for something or can I set tracker to taboo without any danger?
No danger. You can also customize it. Interestingly, this test installation of 15.1 doesn't have it. Tracker is an indexer. It creates an index of some directories so that you can later search for some content fast. The initial search can be disk intensive, but if it is cpu intensive while you are using the machine it is a bug. It also should not run while the machine is on battery power. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from openSUSE, Leap 15.1 x86_64 (ssd-test)) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 04/25/2019 11:06 AM, Daniel Bauer wrote:
So I de-installed tracker with Yast.
All seems fine, but I'd like to be sure: does my system need tracker for something or can I set tracker to taboo without any danger?
No danger, tracker is the latest incarnation of the "dreaded dog" (beagle) that is one of the first applications I routinely shoot-in-the-head as soon as install is complete. If I can't find where I saved something, there is little hope a 30GB index will be of any help.... I'd rather have 3 more VMs in the space :) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
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