Installation frustrations

[Harold]

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 <foobar at it-clowns.com> 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 <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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