So a few months back I asked about you guys os in c/asklemmy, so this time I wanna ask about your desktops you use on this same account.
(I use kde but plan to move to cinnamon I find kde buggy and gnome tracker3 randomly broke for no reason + themeing so yh idk if these happened to anybody)

  • nanook@friendica.eskimo.com
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    1 month ago

    @BCsven @Mwa I disabled tracker and use plocate from a shell to find stuff. The reason, tracker’s crawl of the disk space is extremely inefficient, but plocate keeps track of things like directory update times so does not recrawl a directory if the time stamps have not changed, thus saving a lot of disk I/O.

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      1 month ago

      Tracker should not be recrawling everything, unless you delete the index with a tracker3 reset

      Once it builds the initial index only new files or changed files should be recrawled for meta data.

      The only time I have seen Tracker use cpu was when it got hung up on a file that had special code in it that was messing with parsing the data and so it would fail and retry over and over.