PaulGaskin: according to its description, Tracker is a local search
tool. It collects information about your files ("indexes" them) so that
it will not need to perform any actual searching when you perform an
actual search, sort of like Google indexes web sites in advance so it
can respond quickly to a query with results from millions of web sites.
But unlike Google, Tracker does not -- to the best of my knowledge --
make its indices available to anybody or anything outside your home
directory.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracker_(desktop_search_software)
Granted, if you do not use it to search your files, you do not need its
services, and ought to be able to turn it off, especially if it consumes
resources excessively. In System -> Preferences -> Sessions -> Startup
programs tab, there is a check box for Tracker which you can uncheck --
perhaps you want to try to do that if you hadn't stumbled over this
previously.
Although it's not really pertinent to this bug report, perhaps there
would be room for a separate bug report if you think you have good
reason to believe that the program performs unwanted activity without
you consent. I would speculate that the name of the software might
cause some concern and speculation, but really, this should be the topic
of a separate bug report.
Tracker is open source, so what it does can be vetted completely and
unambiguously by anyone who can read the programming language (C in this
particular case).
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trackerd uses up all available memory
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/214219
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