Tracker-miner-f eating 50% CPU resources

General system Kernel, boot, graphics & hardware
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Hi, forgive the newbie post. I’m not sure if this is the right place.

After the last update and reboot, my computer stopped at the BIOS ram check. I restarted it again.

Fully booted, I have tracker-miner-f taking up 50 to 70% of CPU resources according to top.

Not sure what that service is nor why it’s eating up so much resources. Not sure if I should kill it or how.

If anyone can help, thanks!

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https://gnome.pages.gitlab.gnome.org/tracker/faq/

Have a read of this, it’ll explain to you what it is

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Wow, thanks Smokey. It’s strange because I’m on KDE Plasma. But I do have a big multimedia library.

I’ll let it run its course then.

Cheers

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Your welcome, I would guess it may have installed with some other program you’re using but that’s just a guess.

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Yes, I installed something based on gnome not too long ago. This was the first reboot after an update. And it’s completely stopped. Thanks!

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IIRC after some upgrades to tracker, it has to rebuild its index, and that takes some time and resources

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If you are using Plasma instead of Gnome, you will want Baloo to index your files, not tracker-miner.

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Sounds great but I’m not sure how to do that. Can you help me? Thanks

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Open KDE System Settings and go to File search. Enable it and change any settings if you wish. By default, it indexes /home folder excluding hidden files/folders.
Also disable tracker-miner but I don’t know how to do that. Perhaps the faq may help or there may be a service file to be disabled.

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Thanks, I’m going to look it up. Seem that tracker is now taking up to 100% CPU resources when I reboot :frowning:

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Mentioning the specific package may help others understand the issue better?

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pacman -Sii tracker-miners
says it’s a dependency for gnome-documents.
My output’s in German so I didn’t paste.

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I was hunting down the culprit. I think it was Gnome Music. I was having player issues. I’ll find out on the next reboot. As soon as I removed Gnome Music, tracker stopped. I hope that was the reason and not because it had stopped indexing. What a nasty piece of software!

I’m still not sure the player is the culprit.

Thanks guys

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It’s pretty sure the culprit

gnome-music comes with tracker3-miners 3.2.2-1

and package contents begins with:

etc/
etc/xdg/
etc/xdg/autostart/
etc/xdg/autostart/tracker-miner-fs-3.desktop
etc/xdg/autostart/tracker-miner-rss-3.desktop
usr/
usr/lib/
usr/lib/systemd/
usr/lib/systemd/user/
usr/lib/systemd/user/tracker-extract-3.service
usr/lib/systemd/user/tracker-miner-fs-3.service
usr/lib/systemd/user/tracker-miner-fs-control-3.service
usr/lib/systemd/user/tracker-miner-rss-3.service
usr/lib/systemd/user/tracker-writeback-3.service
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Thanks TomDoe,

Does that mean I have to manually remove tracker from all these directories? I removed Gnome Music using yay -R. Thanks

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Reinstall gnome-music and the remove it with

sudo pacman -Rns

Here are some basic pacman commands

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pacman/Rosetta

The files I listed are merely the tip of the iceberg of dependencies :grinning:

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Hazzah! Tracker was removed. Thanks TomDoe!

So I guess pacman is better than yay for some things? I need to learn more about it.

Cheers

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yay -Rns should work as well
Just remember don’t sudo yay!

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Thanks, that much I knew :slight_smile:

Thanks for your help!