[openbeos] Re: Tracker Task Loop

> > Could someone please tell me what I can do to keep Tracker Taskloop 
> > from spinning out of control and eating up tons of processor
> > cycles?  I can't figure out what makes it go crazy, but it can
> > literally bring the system to its knees sometimes.
> 
> I've had a similar issue here for years. It has never been much of
> a problem, because the thread priority is "low" (5) -- even on a
> single-processor machine this doesn't seem to impact system
> responsiveness. Killing Tracker and restarting it stops the spinning.
> It also seems to consume exactly 50% of one CPU, on both a
> single-processor Athlon (1.33GHz) and a quad-core Core2 (2.4GHz),
> which strikes me as very strange.

Geee, now I have Kylie stuck in my head singing "I'm spinning around, 
move out of my wayyy..." :(

François.

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