Removing Trackerd
Trackerd is probably the least useful tool that comes with Ubuntu. While indexing, it maxes out cpu and memory. Of course it allows you to search, but the search never finds what I’m looking. In my experience, i’ve found that find and grep are much more useful, especially if its only within a subdirectory.
Trying to remove trackerd is much harder than one would think. Using apt/aptitude proved fruitless since trying to remove/purge trackerd or tracker-utils does absolutely nothing. From Travis, I use these two scripts to basically prevent trackerd from running:
killall trackerd
mv /usr/bin/trackerd /usr/bin/trackerd-old
You might want to use ‘whereis trackerd’ to find out where your trackerd binary is actually located before using the move command.