So, there are a few things mentioned here, let me answer them: 1. Any case where you see SIGABRT is usually Tracker killing itself due to seriously high memory use. This has been removed for 1.3.x onwards. What this means is, instead of getting a SIGABRT and the process closing, your machine will be brought to its knees if there are broken 3rd party implementations OR files not following standards. This is usually the reason for SIGABRT, it's rarely a Tracker bug.
2. The tracker-extract process has recently had a fail-safe added to it, so if extraction attempts fail more than 'n' times, we will stop trying. This avoids the "login, fail, login, fail, etc" cycle. 3. If you're seeing high memory use, please file a bug upstream with the file(s) causing this and we will try to fix it. The same with slow down. Some people have crazy PDF content (for example) which can take a LOOONG time to extract and use GBs of memory. This is not Tracker's fault. Finally, I want to add that the reason we have a tracker-extract process is EXACTLY because 3rd party content or libraries are not reliable enough and often deviate from standards. The process is built with crashing expected at some point, and we do try our best NOT to let this happen - but it's not always in our control. Thanks, -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to tracker in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/538673 Title: tracker-extract seems to briefly consume 1.5GB memory and slow computer right down Status in tracker package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Binary package hint: tracker In normal operation of computer, very occasionally computer suddenly slows right down for about 45 seconds - mousepointer is very slow to respond to movement, and windows are too slow to respond to clicks. This has been hard to identify the cause because the computer is so slow to respond it's hard to get system monitor opened to see the offending process. Anyway I've finally managed to view system-monitor within the 45 seconds, and it seems to be "tracker-extract" program that is responsible, that was consuming over 1.5GB of RAM on my machine. It was hard to see though because the 45 seconds finished almost as soon as I'd viewed it, so it very quickly disappeared from the top of the process list when ranked by memory usage. So is "tracker-extract" the offending process? Can it be made a little less hungry of Memory (+ CPU) please? I'm using Ubuntu 9.10 (karmic) 64 bit version on a 2.9GB machine. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tracker/+bug/538673/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
