During the last day I am noticing some strange HDD activity. Every 3-5 seconds I hear the HDD work for 3-4 sec (and its LED on the box is lit). Then the whole thing is repeated again and again.
I watch ‘top’ and I notice 4-7 ‘systemd-coredump’ processes are constantly active (each with 11-13% CPU and about 95mb memory). Also some other process called ‘tracker-extract’ comes to the top of everything every now and then.
This happens even if I simply login to Plasma without starting any programs whatsoever. FWIW ‘akonadictl status’ shows that it is stopped.
I wonder what is going on, is there anything that may need fixing or should I wait for this to go by itself.
tracker is GNOME’s file indexer, and it’s obviously indexing your home partition/files.
And it also seems to be crashing while doing so, which is a more general problem currently it seems (there are a few threads here and bug reports about tracker crashing all the time and causing systemd-coredump to slowing down the system as it creates the coredumps)
If you don’t use GNOME or certain GNOME applications like gnome-music (that doesn’t work without tracker), I’d strongly recommend to just uninstall it.
But gnome-music gets its music collection from tracker, so only “works” if your music files are indexed by tracker. (and I think gnome-documents works similar, i.e. needs tracker/indexing for its functionality as well…)
Thanks for the additional explanation.
This is strange. I wonder how this packet ever got installed.
The only GNOME applications which I installed just recently are Evolution and totem. And the problem started just today (although there weren’t any particular updates recently regarding those packets).
