Guys, I restarted 11.4 and had a flurry of sustained hard drive activity and I took a look at what was running in top. I was quite surprised when I found: 4955 david 39 19 319m 18m 10m R 47 0.5 0:11.26 tracker-extract 4666 david 20 0 192m 19m 5788 S 38 0.5 0:19.49 tracker-store 4550 david 39 19 279m 22m 6604 S 8 0.6 0:06.54 tracker-miner-f <panic> tracker-miner-f? tracker-extract? tracker-store? Oh hell! Did my kids click on something they shouldn't have in Vista? (no - wait, this is my laptop and it's opensuse 11.4) WTF? Did I just get hit with a new firefox virus? </panic> So I go do a quick search for what was installed: 22:12 alchemy:~> rpm -qa | grep tracker libtracker-miner-0_10-0-0.9.38-3.6.1.x86_64 libtracker-client-0_10-0-0.9.38-3.6.1.x86_64 gnome-panel-applet-tracker-0.9.38-3.6.1.x86_64 tracker-0.9.38-3.6.1.x86_64 tracker-miner-files-0.9.38-3.6.1.x86_64 libtracker-extract-0_10-0-0.9.38-3.6.1.x86_64 tracker-gui-0.9.38-3.6.1.x86_64 libtracker-sparql-0_10-0-0.9.38-3.6.1.x86_64 nautilus-extension-tracker-tags-0.9.38-3.6.1.x86_64 tracker-miner-evolution-0.9.38-3.6.1.x86_64 Look at what tracker says about itself: 22:13 alchemy:~> rpm -qi tracker Name : tracker Relocations: (not relocatable) Version : 0.9.38 Vendor: openSUSE Release : 3.6.1 Build Date: Sat 19 Feb 2011 <snip> URL : http://projects.gnome.org/tracker/ Summary : Powerful object database, tag/metadata database, search tool and indexer Description : Tracker is a powerful desktop-neutral first class object database, tag/metadata database, search tool and indexer. It consists of a common object database that allows entities to have an almost infinte number of properties, metadata (both embedded/harvested as well as user definable), a comprehensive database of keywords/tags and links to other entities. It provides additional features for file-based objects including context linking and audit trails for a file object. It has the ability to index, store, harvest metadata, retrieve and search all types of files and other first class objects. Distribution: openSUSE 11.4 My next thought was - gnome? What is this thing doing running when I launched kde3? Where did it start from? More importantly - how do I get rid of it? Then it hit me: "Is this beagle in disguise?" I watched it for another couple of minutes and it quit. So what is this thing? Is it worth keeping? Should I just nuke it? What is the collective wisdom on whether it works or is it just another waste of cpu cycles and index db space? Thanks for any info you have. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org