My laptop has been running trackerd for the last 4 days or so.  I still
hasn't stopped indexing.

Core Duo 2GHz, 1GB RAM, 72GB home directory being indexed.

But it has filled up my disk during the last day.  I have a 72GB home
directory, of which 3.1GB is tracker's incomplete index of it, and is
therefore full.  To let it get this far I deleted a few of my video
files.  Of course, each time I delete some files, trackerd takes up some
more space and fills the disk again...

Because there's no indication of progress, I don't have any idea how
much space it will need in total for the index.  Is it 10% on top of my
data requirements?  25%?  Do I need to free up many more gigabytes?  Do
I need to buy a bigger disk?

I only know that whenever I free up some space, it gets used up quickly
by trackerd.  Eventually I have other things to do than looking for
large files to delete.

That means I have no way to decide if trackerd is worth having, or if it
will use too much space for its index and I should delete it.

Now I'm thinking, apart from the way it makes the desktop unusably slow
(presumably this will be fixed eventually), and the battery use, and the
need to re-scan my home directory (for hours) each time I reboot, now
I'm thinking it also uses more disk space than I'm willing to spend on
it.

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Tracker takes very long time to index system, provides no obvious status 
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/130935
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