I have 4 instances of systemd-coredump running that keep changing pid’s and are using most of my cpu. What would be causing this, and how do I resolve this?
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
23407 root 20 0 119144 97592 2068 R 99.67 1.222 0:06.66 systemd-coredum
23427 root 20 0 118976 97448 2136 R 92.03 1.220 0:04.24 systemd-coredum
23462 root 20 0 119144 97396 2060 R 77.74 1.219 0:02.34 systemd-coredum
23516 root 20 0 119144 26108 2072 R 20.93 0.327 0:00.63 systemd-coredum
Running Leap 42.3 with GNOME 3.20.2
I don’t use gnome myself, but a likely contender for the core dumps is “tracker”, I believe it’s well known for it 
What does
sudo coredumpctl list
show…
or alternatively have a look in “/var/lib/systemd/coredump”.
alex@linux-pd5p:~> sudo coredumpctl list
[sudo] password for root:
TIME PID UID GID SIG PRESENT EXE
Sun 2018-02-11 08:34:01 CST 21399 1000 100 31 * /usr/lib/tracker-extract
Sun 2018-02-11 08:34:02 CST 21420 1000 100 31 * /usr/lib/tracker-extract
Sun 2018-02-11 08:34:03 CST 21442 1000 100 31 * /usr/lib/tracker-extract
Sun 2018-02-11 08:34:08 CST 21460 1000 100 31 * /usr/lib/tracker-extract
Sun 2018-02-11 08:34:08 CST 21481 1000 100 31 * /usr/lib/tracker-extract
Sun 2018-02-11 08:34:10 CST 21499 1000 100 31 * /usr/lib/tracker-extract
Sun 2018-02-11 08:34:15 CST 21538 1000 100 31 * /usr/lib/tracker-extract
Sun 2018-02-11 08:34:15 CST 21518 1000 100 31 * /usr/lib/tracker-extract
Sun 2018-02-11 08:34:17 CST 21557 1000 100 31 * /usr/lib/tracker-extract
Sun 2018-02-11 08:34:21 CST 21577 1000 100 31 * /usr/lib/tracker-extract
Sun 2018-02-11 08:34:22 CST 21598 1000 100 31 * /usr/lib/tracker-extract
Sun 2018-02-11 08:34:23 CST 21617 1000 100 31 * /usr/lib/tracker-extract
Sun 2018-02-11 08:34:28 CST 21637 1000 100 31 * /usr/lib/tracker-extract
Sun 2018-02-11 08:34:29 CST 21658 1000 100 31 * /usr/lib/tracker-extract
Sun 2018-02-11 08:34:30 CST 21677 1000 100 31 * /usr/lib/tracker-extract
Sun 2018-02-11 08:34:35 CST 21696 1000 100 31 * /usr/lib/tracker-extract
Sun 2018-02-11 08:34:36 CST 21717 1000 100 31 * /usr/lib/tracker-extract
Sun 2018-02-11 08:34:37 CST 21737 1000 100 31 * /usr/lib/tracker-extract
Sun 2018-02-11 08:34:42 CST 21758 1000 100 31 * /usr/lib/tracker-extract
Sun 2018-02-11 08:34:43 CST 21781 1000 100 31 * /usr/lib/tracker-extract
Sun 2018-02-11 08:34:45 CST 21799 1000 100 31 * /usr/lib/tracker-extract
Sun 2018-02-11 10:45:24 CST 21968 1000 100 31 * /usr/lib/tracker-extract
Sun 2018-02-11 10:45:25 CST 21818 1000 100 31 * /usr/lib/tracker-extract
Sun 2018-02-11 10:45:27 CST 21988 1000 100 31 * /usr/lib/tracker-extract
Sun 2018-02-11 10:45:31 CST 22163 1000 100 31 * /usr/lib/tracker-extract
Sun 2018-02-11 10:45:32 CST 22213 1000 100 31 * /usr/lib/tracker-extract
Sun 2018-02-11 10:45:33 CST 22351 1000 100 31 * /usr/lib/tracker-extract
Sun 2018-02-11 10:45:38 CST 22443 1000 100 31 * /usr/lib/tracker-extract
Sun 2018-02-11 10:45:39 CST 22470 1000 100 31 * /usr/lib/tracker-extract
Sun 2018-02-11 10:45:41 CST 22544 1000 100 31 * /usr/lib/tracker-extract
Sun 2018-02-11 10:45:45 CST 22584 1000 100 31 * /usr/lib/tracker-extract
Sun 2018-02-11 10:45:45 CST 22609 1000 100 31 * /usr/lib/tracker-extract
Sun 2018-02-11 10:45:47 CST 22628 1000 100 31 * /usr/lib/tracker-extract
Sun 2018-02-11 10:45:51 CST 22648 1000 100 31 * /usr/lib/tracker-extract
Sun 2018-02-11 10:45:52 CST 22670 1000 100 31 * /usr/lib/tracker-extract
Sun 2018-02-11 10:45:54 CST 22689 1000 100 31 * /usr/lib/tracker-extract
Sun 2018-02-11 10:45:58 CST 22708 1000 100 31 * /usr/lib/tracker-extract
Sun 2018-02-11 10:45:58 CST 22728 1000 100 31 * /usr/lib/tracker-extract
Sun 2018-02-11 10:46:00 CST 22747 1000 100 31 * /usr/lib/tracker-extract
Sun 2018-02-11 10:46:03 CST 22766 1000 100 31 * /usr/lib/tracker-extract
Sun 2018-02-11 10:46:04 CST 22786 1000 100 31 * /usr/lib/tracker-extract
Sun 2018-02-11 10:46:06 CST 22805 1000 100 31 * /usr/lib/tracker-extract
Sun 2018-02-11 10:46:09 CST 22823 1000 100 31 * /usr/lib/tracker-extract
Sun 2018-02-11 10:46:11 CST 22843 1000 100 31 * /usr/lib/tracker-extract
Sun 2018-02-11 10:46:12 CST 22866 1000 100 31 * /usr/lib/tracker-extract
Sun 2018-02-11 10:46:17 CST 22885 1000 100 31 * /usr/lib/tracker-extract
Sun 2018-02-11 10:46:18 CST 22906 1000 100 31 * /usr/lib/tracker-extract
Sun 2018-02-11 10:46:18 CST 22928 1000 100 31 * /usr/lib/tracker-extract
Sun 2018-02-11 10:46:23 CST 22947 1000 100 31 * /usr/lib/tracker-extract
Sun 2018-02-11 10:46:23 CST 22967 1000 100 31 * /usr/lib/tracker-extract
Sun 2018-02-11 10:46:25 CST 22987 1000 100 31 * /usr/lib/tracker-extract
Sun 2018-02-11 10:46:29 CST 23026 1000 100 31 * /usr/lib/tracker-extract
Sun 2018-02-11 10:46:30 CST 23005 1000 100 31 * /usr/lib/tracker-extract
Sun 2018-02-11 10:46:31 CST 23045 1000 100 31 * /usr/lib/tracker-extract
Sun 2018-02-11 10:46:36 CST 23064 1000 100 31 * /usr/lib/tracker-extract
Sun 2018-02-11 10:46:36 CST 23084 1000 100 31 * /usr/lib/tracker-extract
Sun 2018-02-11 10:46:39 CST 23103 1000 100 31 * /usr/lib/tracker-extract
Sun 2018-02-11 10:46:43 CST 23150 1000 100 31 * /usr/lib/tracker-extract
Sun 2018-02-11 10:46:44 CST 23125 1000 100 31 * /usr/lib/tracker-extract
Sun 2018-02-11 10:46:45 CST 23169 1000 100 31 * /usr/lib/tracker-extract
Sun 2018-02-11 10:46:50 CST 23210 1000 100 31 * /usr/lib/tracker-extract
Sun 2018-02-11 10:46:50 CST 23188 1000 100 31 * /usr/lib/tracker-extract
Sun 2018-02-11 10:46:52 CST 23229 1000 100 31 * /usr/lib/tracker-extract
Sun 2018-02-11 10:46:57 CST 23269 1000 100 31 * /usr/lib/tracker-extract
Sun 2018-02-11 10:46:57 CST 23247 1000 100 31 * /usr/lib/tracker-extract
Sun 2018-02-11 10:47:00 CST 23287 1000 100 31 * /usr/lib/tracker-extract
Sun 2018-02-11 10:47:04 CST 23306 1000 100 31 * /usr/lib/tracker-extract
Sun 2018-02-11 10:47:05 CST 23326 1000 100 31 * /usr/lib/tracker-extract
Sun 2018-02-11 10:47:06 CST 23345 1000 100 31 * /usr/lib/tracker-extract
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Sun 2018-02-11 10:47:11 CST 23385 1000 100 31 * /usr/lib/tracker-extract
Sun 2018-02-11 10:47:13 CST 23405 1000 100 31 * /usr/lib/tracker-extract
Sun 2018-02-11 10:47:17 CST 23425 1000 100 31 * /usr/lib/tracker-extract
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Hi
Open a terminal and kill it off with;
tracker reset -r
That works! Am I going to have to make this a crontab job? Does this kill tracker, or just restart it, and are other applications going to have issues with traker being reset?
Hi
Depends if your wanting to use the feature or not? If you go to Settings → Search and Indexing and under ‘Locations’ tab and remove all the listed directories and then apply, go to the ‘System’ tab and remove all the indexes. See how that goes when you restart the system…
Depending on your journal requirements, I would suggest as root user running;
journalctl --vacuum-time=2d
Should clean them all up… the other option is to remove tracker completely…
On Sun 11 Feb 2018 05:56:01 PM CST, malcolmlewis wrote:
Arodd2000;2854976 Wrote:
> That works! Am I going to have to make this a crontab job? Does this
> kill tracker, or just restart it, and are other applications going to
> have issues with traker being reset?
Hi
Depends if your wanting to use the feature or not? If you go to Settings
→ Search and Indexing and under ‘Locations’ tab and remove all the
listed directories and then apply, go to the ‘System’ tab and remove all
the indexes. See how that goes when you restart the system…
Depending on your journal requirements, I would suggest as root user
running;
Code:
journalctl --vacuum-time=2d
Should clean them all up… the other option is to remove tracker
completely…
Hi
Seems a better option is running;
tracker daemon -k
A fix is coming… just slow (sent a chaser to my SUSE contacts) for
https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1017652
I created an autostart file to run on login…
–
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I have this problem now on my laptop running an up-to-date Leap 42.3, and I show no updates applied or pending for tracker. Can this get kicked up a notch for 42.3 again, please?
if you don’t want to uninstall tracker, but wait for an update I resolved the issue this way by gleaning a single suggestion from the bug report:
d3vnull@kvm:~> crontab -l
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall.
# (/tmp/crontab.LJpFwJ installed on Sun Apr 29 13:30:57 2018)
# (Cronie version 4.2)
*/1 * * * * /home/d3vnull/bin/core.sh
d3vnull@kvm:~> cat ~/bin/core.sh
#!/bin/bash
ps aux|grep -v grep|grep -v core.sh|grep core &>/dev/null
if ! $? ]
then
gnome-control-center -l &>/dev/null
fi