Installation frustrations

[Mark Phillips]

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 <iscreamkid at gmail.com> 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
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