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djh_
2008-02-20, 19:35
Not sure if this will affect non-Aeon users, but I recently ran into slowdown issues in Linux (often severe) when switching between backdrops and watching video. Initially, I suspected this was because I'd just started toying with 1080p backdrops in BMP and PNG formats, some of which ran to >5mb.

The problem persisted, however, and I eventually traced it to trackerd, the indexing process. I guess having loads of big image files in a Home subfolder sent it into some kind of quasi, so I killed the beast and now everything's fine again. You can turn it off permanently through the Sessions dialog.

tslayer
2008-02-20, 19:42
Yeah.. I had some trackerd issues in the past. Disabled a while ago as well.

rodalpho
2008-02-20, 19:53
I turned it off too. Consumed one of my CPUs at 100% for days on end. Piece of garbage.