Nice just lessens its priority, not to clobber more important apps. That said, it'll still consume cpu/power if it's being a hog, so if it's misbehaving, you'll want to fix or bury the carcass. Sounds like either it's trying to index a literal ton of stuff on your system, maybe attacking a remote share (ive seen indexing services kill my pc and network trying to index my central filer), or just broken somehow. Maybe start it with a debug flag (if possible) and see why it's freaking out? -mb On 09/24/2014 05:47 PM, Harold wrote: > I watched the guys at Installfest using the feature, and saw that it has > its utility value, but not if it locks up the whole system as it was > doing. > > What is this "nice"? > Is it a setting, such as getting the thing to run in the background, or > some such reasonable feature? > I know that the old mainframes used to do all sorts of indexing, and the > equivalent of defragging in the background, no problem. That would be > the way to go. > > HM > > On Tue, 2014-09-23 at 12:39 -0700, Ed wrote: >> The indexing service is adjustable - you can 'nice' it or set it to >> not run when the desktop is in use. >> >> You might reconsider disabling it, especially if you use Gnome3, as >> search is a primary access paradigm. Just hit the window key and start >> typing and a list of files is shown like in dynamic google - apps too. >> Once you try it a while you may find it a faster way of file retrieval >> / app launch. For full documentation look at: >> https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Tracker >> >> On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 11:08 AM, Lisa Kachold wrote: >>> Yo Kid, >>> >>> Please check this link for solutions, such as how to remove or disable >>> (since Tracker is a dependency for some programs): >>> >>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=747689 >>> >>> On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 8:16 PM, IscreamKid wrote: >>>> Saturday, at the Installfest, despite cautions from Thomas, I installed >>>> CentOS on my new computer. >>>> >>>> The install went well from the standpoint of reallocating the partitions >>>> and getting Grub to recognize both CentOS and Win 7. >>>> >>>> When I started working with it I loaded on my files. >>>> Files that took forty minutes to backup took two hours to load on a faster >>>> system. >>>> The culprit seems to be Tracker-miner. >>>> >>>> It continues to drag the system down when I am trying to do other things. >>>> >>>> I have no idea why I need an application on here to, supposedly help me >>>> find files. >>>> In all of the years I have worked with Linux I can think of only three >>>> instances where I have used find to locate a file, and it worked nicely, >>>> thank you. >>>> >>>> Now I have a system that uses all of its resources to track files I will >>>> likely never ask for. Grrrrrrrr. >>>> >>>> After that the change of Gnome and KDE to eliminate my virtual desktops is >>>> unimportant. >>>> >>>> Would anyone like to suggest a better distro that will actually run and >>>> perhaps has more than four desktops, while running Office Libre, and plays >>>> You Tube videos in a browser? >>>> >>>> Harold >>>> --------------------------------------------------- >>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>> >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss