On Sat, 2012-06-23 at 20:40 +0800, George Olson wrote:

I have found that I have tracker-miner-fs running, and often at startup it hogs the cpu for a little while. The solution given at the end of the thread is, "If you have the gnome-panel-applet-tracker installed, you can disable it, just write "Tracker" in the box that you'll find when you click on the Suse button."

gnome-panel-applet... ? What version(s) are you running; appletts are dead.

If you want it not to fire up at login: "rm /etc/xdg/autostart/tracker-store.desktop"

I do have the gnome-panel-applet-tracker installed, as I found by rpm-qa | grep tracker, but how do you actually open and run this panel-applet so that you can find the Suse button and disable tracker?

Those modules just send events to the tracker service; they will still use they just as well if Tracker is not running.

I also saw in my rpm qa that firefox and thundrbird use the tracker-miner. Will disabling it affect firefox and thunderbird?