Comment 4 for bug 361560

While letting the tracker run after choosing 'Reindex all contents' the machine was relatively unusable. Firefox would gray out every couple of minutes, the mouse pointer was lagging. After letting the tracker run for a couple of hours, I came back to even my shell being grayed out and 'dbus-daemon' sharing half the CPU with 'tracker-indexer'. I had to hard power cycle the machine to get it back. A couple minutes after logging in the popup returned.

From the tracker applet, under indexer preferences, I unchecked "enable indexing" and chose apply. This lagged for about 30 seconds. In the interim I randomly clicked OK and Cancel for a while to pass the time. Then it told me it would need to restart trackerd, which it did, shortly thereafter (index delay?) the popup returned.

ps exposed that tracker-indexer was not a child of trackerd, so I killed it. Choosing to reindex started another indexer after I found the popup hidden behind other windows. The ok/cancel/reindex popup continued until I killed tracker-applet.

the dbus-daemon and tracker-indexer are still both pretty cpu heavy, but I'm going to let them keep running and the system seems mostly usable at the moment. If the index was corrupted, it'd be super nice if I 'delete it and stop telling me about this' was an option.