Not sure if this will help, as I know nothing about Tracker-miner nor CentOS.... http://askubuntu.com/questions/346211/tracker-store-and-tracker-miner-fs-eating-up-my-cpu-on-every-startup Have you tried Debian or Ubuntu? Mark 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 >