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["Christopher M. Penalver" <christopher.m.penalver@xxxxxxxxx>]

Tom Badran, this bug was reported a while ago and there hasn't been any
activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue? If
so, could you please test for this with the latest development release
of Ubuntu? ISO images are available from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com
/daily-live/current/ .

If it remains an issue, could you please run the following command in
the development release from a Terminal
(Applications->Accessories->Terminal), as it will automatically gather
and attach updated debug information to this report:

apport-collect -p linux <replace-with-bug-number>

Also, could you please test the latest upstream kernel available (not the daily folder, but the one at the top) following https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelMainlineBuilds ? It will allow additional upstream developers to examine the issue. Once you've tested the upstream kernel, please comment on which kernel version specifically you tested. If this bug is fixed in the mainline kernel, please add the following tags:
kernel-fixed-upstream
kernel-fixed-upstream-VERSION-NUMBER

where VERSION-NUMBER is the version number of the kernel you tested. For example:
kernel-fixed-upstream-v3.13-rc4

This can be done by clicking on the yellow circle with a black pencil icon next to the word Tags located at the bottom of the bug description. As well, please remove the tag:
needs-upstream-testing

If the mainline kernel does not fix this bug, please add the following tags:
kernel-bug-exists-upstream
kernel-bug-exists-upstream-VERSION-NUMBER

As well, please remove the tag:
needs-upstream-testing

Once testing of the upstream kernel is complete, please mark this bug's
Status as Confirmed. Please let us know your results. Thank you for your
understanding.

** This bug is no longer a duplicate of bug 131094
   Heavy Disk I/O harms desktop responsiveness

** Package changed: tracker (Ubuntu) => linux (Ubuntu)

** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
   Importance: High => Medium

** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
       Status: Confirmed => Incomplete

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/135115

Title:
  tracker causing very high disk useage/thrashing

Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: tracker

  I've been tracking gutsy for a few months now, recently i noticed my
  disk just seems to be constantly in use (its not very quiet in this
  machine). The only things that seem to be running according to top are
  trackerd processes. They are reniced to 19 which seems sensible, but
  the disk useage is just crazy.

  Doing a full dd  dump of the entire disk takes roughly 15minutes.
  However the tracker processes just seem to run for ages (>1hour) and
  cause the disk to be constantly in use for this whole time. Every now
  and then the system just seems to stall and things that take < 1
  second usually (opening a terminal window is a good test of this) end
  up taking approximately 10 seconds. During these stalls the whole
  interface seems to be unresponsive too.

  I dont know exactly whats going on that causes this, but the only
  consistent element when investigating this has been 3 trackerd
  process, niced at 19, using roughly 9% cpu each (although this cpu use
  percentage does jump around alot, varying from 1% to 10%).

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