Installation frustrations

[Michael Butash]

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 <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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