Tracker-miner-fs3 is using a huge amount of RAM and CPU

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Hello, I have notused that this tracker-miner-fs3 process never stop chewing on disk writes and reads. also it uses alot of cpu and ram. I get over 10gb of disk write in 1 hours being logged in gnome.

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I don’t like it either. IIRC, turning off “Application Search” in GNOME Settings is supposed to disable it. It seems like I did something more. But I cannot remember what.

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Its not that i dont like it… It seems that it doesnt work properly… Its hard to believe that after a week its still chewing to build a database… makes no sense.
I disabled it with sudo chmod -x /usr/libexec/tracker-miner-fs-3 for now. Not sure what ill do with it

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That probably won’t keep across your next system update.

FWIW, it looks like I disabled it by masking all its services.

[/home/gregory]$ ls -al .config/systemd/user
0755   - gregory gregory 2021-07-18 00:59 default.target.wants
0777   9 gregory gregory 2020-12-06 21:11 tracker-extract-3.service -> /dev/null
0777   9 gregory gregory 2020-12-06 21:11 tracker-extract.service -> /dev/null
0777   9 gregory gregory 2020-12-06 21:11 tracker-miner-fs-3.service -> /dev/null
0777   9 gregory gregory 2020-12-06 21:11 tracker-miner-fs-control-3.service -> /dev/null
0777   9 gregory gregory 2020-12-06 21:11 tracker-miner-fs.service -> /dev/null
0777   9 gregory gregory 2020-12-06 21:11 tracker-miner-rss-3.service -> /dev/null
0777   9 gregory gregory 2020-12-06 21:11 tracker-miner-rss.service -> /dev/null
0777   9 gregory gregory 2020-12-06 21:11 tracker-store.service -> /dev/null
0777   9 gregory gregory 2020-12-06 21:11 tracker-writeback-3.service -> /dev/null
0777   9 gregory gregory 2020-12-06 21:11 tracker-writeback.service -> /dev/null
0777   9 gregory gregory 2020-12-06 21:11 tracker-xdg-portal-3.service -> /dev/null

If it is just in a bad state, my guess would be that you might need to run tracker3 reset --filesystem to correct it. But that is just a guess. As you can see from the dates shown above, I disabled mine a long time ago and I’ve been quite happy without it. :wink:

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In first decade of this century we had Beagle. There’s wiki article about it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beagle_(software). It was also prone to waste resources. Tracker seems to be an offshot of that one. Beagle grew out of Dashboard if I understood forementioned wiki article. There was also Google’s search (Google Desktop or something like that) for Linux. My first experience with indexers was when I got my first hard disk. It was 40 Meg SCSI “brick”. As a bonus I got indexing software, I think it was called “On Location”, but I’m not sure. So, that thing I had to try, and after I filled half of hard disk with content of our most relevant floppy disks and run a program, other half was stuffed with index database. I uninstalled it and erased database. It seems that “$ info grep” is still a good read. :wink:

(Sorry, I edited. Americanized all discs to disks, :slight_smile: )

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I am american and I use both spellings interchangeably. It really does not matter since most of us understand anyway.

I don’t know where you are, but your English seems really good. :smiley:

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Croatia. It was early in the morning and the coffee still brewing, so I messed my spelling. In school they taught me British english, but as a life went on I’ve read many books that came from other side of Atlantic. Internet and Rock’N’Roll also helped a bit. :slight_smile: