extreme file growth fills disk re: tracker

This does not seem to be Evo, but tracker (a file indexing package). Please check if you have tracker installed, and check (if it is indeed installed) what are the options you set on it.

Thanks for your quick response - the version of tracker I have is very
basic and I don't know how to configure any options - no menus

On Fri, 2007-12-28 at 00:44 +0000, hggdh wrote:
> Your question #20822 on Ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/20822
>
> Status: Open => Needs information
>
> hggdh requested for more information:
> This does not seem to be Evo, but tracker (a file indexing package).
> Please check if you have tracker installed, and check (if it is indeed
> installed) what are the options you set on it.
>

Please take a look into your user tracker config file, and modify it:

gedit $HOME/.config/tracker/tracker.cfg

Hope this helps

Still... on a 40G total available disk space, tracker indexed 34G of Evolution emails... that's weird. What version of tracker are you running? Or are you indexing other filesystems?

I think I found the issue - or at least another problem - there is a
memory leak with the daemon - currently on my machine with tracker app
not being used it is 1GB memory and climbing

<from top>

23488 steve 34 19 1154m 1.0g 1384 S 38.6 84.7 375:09.93 trackerd-

also vmstat shows severe thrashing from si so paging to disk

procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- -system--
----cpu----
 r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy
id wa
 0 2 755324 26412 848 27788 13 14 58 103 174 355 69 22
8 1
 1 2 755400 28080 840 27832 240 1000 240 1024 356 307 72 13
0 15
 0 2 755296 27980 856 28032 348 0 572 104 304 544 37 16
0 48
 2 1 755032 25188 920 30316 536 0 2884 0 273 528 76 7
0 17
 1 1 755032 26384 916 30324 540 304 540 304 361 433 86 14
0 0
 0 1 755032 25996 916 30316 492 0 492 0 217 559 42 20
0 38
 2 1 755780 27400 920 30176 184 2172 184 2280 352 329 75 10
0 15
 0 1 755808 27804 924 30040 176 696 180 696 377 302 29 7
0 64
 1 1 755692 27692 924 30084 400 0 400 0 229 565 68 16
0 16
 1 1 755404 27036 924 30040 664 0 664 0 241 396 89 11
0 0

the tracker site speaks of 063 and 064 memory leak fixes - but I think
they still have the problem.

regards,

Steve Reith

On Fri, 2007-12-28 at 12:49 +0000, hggdh wrote:
> Your question #20822 on Ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/20822
>
> hggdh requested for more information:
> Still... on a 40G total available disk space, tracker indexed 34G of
> Evolution emails... that's weird. What version of tracker are you
> running? Or are you indexing other filesystems?
>

What version of tracker are you running? What has it been configured to do? This is starting to sound like a bug...

Hi - it is the standard app with the gutsy download : 063-0ubuntu3.
Did you see the web site: http://www.gnome.org/projects/tracker/ ? 063 -
was full of bugs - and I suspect 064 is no better. I have the "in the
box" config - as far as I can see it only searches evolution and my
testing shows that it only returns evolution hits from any query.

On Fri, 2007-12-28 at 17:00 +0000, hggdh wrote:
> Your question #20822 on Ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/20822
>
> Status: Open => Needs information
>
> hggdh requested for more information:
> What version of tracker are you running? What has it been configured to
> do? This is starting to sound like a bug...
>

I am still having severe problems daily with trackerd. Currently System Monitor shows trackerd using close to 1.2 GB out of 1.2 GB of ram. Swap is nearly at 100 %. System is nearly unusable - hard disk has light on continuously - vmstat shows system with with constant si so - very high wait states - apparent need to disable trackerd until application is fixed

regards,

Steve Reith

Thanks,

Steve Reith