tracker-miner-fs resource usage

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#1

Hey all, I am brand new to openSUSE, but not to Linux. I have been a heavy user of .deb-based distros for the past few years, and have just decided to give openSUSE a try due to the stellar KDE experience. (I dislike the newest gnome iteration)

Anyways, I seem to be having a problem with a process called “tracker-miner-fs”. Every time I boot up, this process instantly consumes around 10% of the CPU and another 4 GB of memory held privately! And it continues to do so the whole time the machine is on. Just now, I noticed the machine has started using SWAP space due to low memory, even though I have 6 GBs installed!

I’ve tried looking this up online, but have not really found anything useful about what to do.

#2

Welcome here.

We would like to know (allways) which version of openSUSE this is about. When you are fast, you can post this before the new year for many of us.

#3

Sorry! I’m using openSUSE 12.2 KDE 64-bit

#4

On 2012-12-31 23:26, wvcaudill2 wrote:

> Sorry! I’m using openSUSE 12.2 KDE 64-bit

tracker is a gnome service, I wonder why you have it running. It is a
file content indexer, and it is configurable (in gnome) what files it
looks at and where, and how many resources it claims.

Run “tracker-preferences” and adjust it.

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Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4, with Evergreen, x86_64 “Celadon” (Minas Tirith))

#5

This is interesting because this i a fresh install of openSUSE. Tracker-miner-fs must have been installed from the original CD

Also, your suggestions was unsuccessful:

If ‘tracker-preferences’ is not a typo you can use command-not-found to lookup the package that contains it, like this:
cnf tracker-preferences

#6

you may need to do this

 sudo zypper in tracker-gui

before running tracker-preferences

Also i don’t know whether it will break your desktop. you may remove tracker from your system using YaST

#7

Using YaST > Sopftware > Softyware management, I see six tracker-miner-… packages and the package libtracker-miner-0… None is installed on my openSUSE 12.2 KDE Thus I guess it is not done so by default.

It advertises itself btw in the comment of the packages as:

Tracker is a powerful desktop-neutral first class object database, tag/metadata database, search tool and indexer.

and as such shouldn’t be typical Gnome.

#8

On 2013-01-01 07:56, vazhavandan wrote:
>
> wvcaudill2;2514726 Wrote:
>> This is interesting because this i a fresh install of openSUSE.
>> Tracker-miner-fs must have been installed from the original CD

Interesting.
There must be something installed from gnome that I can not guess.

> Also i don’t know whether it will break your desktop. you may remove
> tracker from your system using YaST

But careful, it might want to remove something else, whatever it is that
needs tracker.

–
Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4, with Evergreen, x86_64 “Celadon” (Minas Tirith))

#9

On 2013-01-01 14:36, hcvv wrote:

> and as such shouldn’t be typical Gnome.

But I understand that KDE has its own search engine, so kde users would
get both running if tracker is installed.

–
Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4, with Evergreen, x86_64 “Celadon” (Minas Tirith))

#10

Yup tracker is a worthy successor for beagle :slight_smile:

#11

Ok, this is odd. I swear this is a brand new, fresh install, and yet a quick search in yast reveals this:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/1fwvpqwcbqinzv2/snapshot5.png

and what should I remove here, all of it?
https://www.dropbox.com/s/k154mv0nijz7rbn/snapshot6.png

Edit: I’m not sure why these images aren’t showing up, but if you right click and select to open in a new tab, they show fine.

#12

paste.opensuse.org can host your images
then link to the image
i have even used imgur and these forums support it
Just paste those urls
i think gnome is installed on your system as i see adwaita which is default gnome shell theme
https://www.dropbox.com/s/1fwvpqwcbqinzv2/snapshot5.png
https://www.dropbox.com/s/k154mv0nijz7rbn/snapshot6.png

#13

I dont understand how I can have Gnome installed? When I look at the login options, Gnome is not even listed.

In any event, what tracker packages are safe for me to uninstall?

#14

if you did not install gnome then only other thing i can think of is that you installed some gtk application(like firefox Is firefox written in GTK or QT ?) which has pulled in the gnome library files.
if you remove tracker it may remove those gtk applications too :slight_smile:
if you are sticking to kde you are better off using qt based apps(ofcourse it is strictly my opinion)

#15

I went ahead and deleted tracker and all files associated with it. After digging through YaST it looks like these packages were installed with Brasero, but I dont recall having installed that at all.

#16

I ran into this issue today on a fresh openSUSE 12.2 x86_64 install using xfce as the desktop environment.

The specific issue I noticed was logged as “Fixes: GB#687134, tracker-miner-fs - Huge memory consumption” and is supposedly fixed in 0.14.4 which is available in GNOME:STABLE:3.6. I do not know the OBS process or how that update gets included in the standard update repo. You could update to this version, but adding this repo on a KDE system might get messy.

I do not know if this is the same issue you experienced, but I am guessing it probably is…

There are ways to disable tracker on a per user basis and globally.

Or you can just remove it like I did. Desktop index/search doesn’t work very well on any operating system I have ever used. Plus, I do not use Thunderbird for email.

I hope this helps,
Jeff

#17

OK since you’re doing using KDE (as I am) it’s OK to go into Yast & delete tracker. Once in Yast in the Search type in tracker remove
the following:
tracker
tracker-miner-evolution
tracker-miner-files
tracker-miner-firefox
tracker-miner-thunderbird
tracker-miner-flickr
tracker-miner-rss

The reason you have it is because it does come with the install DVD why IDK but it’s in there. So if you’re using KDE you don’t need it & as such your 12.2 install will suffer no ill.