This issue is definitely still present in 10.04 (64bit), I'm seeing it with a fresh install. What I was running 9.04 I played with the tracker performance slider (which appears to control the process's nice value?) but did not notice any perceived change. The freezes appeared to occur relatively late during the indexing, so there may be issues with large indexes. I have a lot of source code and pdf documents on the index. To me the whole problem appears as if tracker was holding a lock on a file which is also used by many others. So, in fact, the less CPU time tracker gets, the more others have to wait for it (aka priority inversion). I think the issue is a crying shame, as it has been in (oops, there it happened again, a 5 second freeze with Firefox getting greyed out) ubuntu since at least 3 releases, and now even is in an LTS.
The tracker.log contains one 1 line dating from 2008(!)... -- tracker IO activity slows down ubuntu 9.04 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/373158 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
