If you consider ubuntu run mint instead. Then there is Linux Mint Debian Edition. :-)~MIKE~(-: On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 8:38 PM, Mark Phillips wrote: > 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 >> > > > --------------------------------------------------- > 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 >