A few days after the Gutsy install I’ve noticed that a lot of time the system is very slow, almost does not respond to anything. Initially I thought it’s spamassasin which is known to take a lot of processing power while receiving mails but doing a top revealed a new hungry process: trackerd eating 99% of cpu on my laptop.
I’ve done a
pkill -9 trackerd
and regained control of my system.
Did not payed much attention to that until this happened again and again. However I could not find a /etc/init.d equivalent which started this daemon. Finally I found this thread which showed me how to remove the process by going to System> Preferences> Sessions. Goodbye trackerd.