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Re: Gnome Tracker (tracker-miner-fs-3) behaving badly
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Ekaitz Zarraga |
Subject: |
Re: Gnome Tracker (tracker-miner-fs-3) behaving badly |
Date: |
Thu, 18 Aug 2022 09:08:58 +0000 |
Hi,
------- Original Message -------
On Thursday, August 18th, 2022 at 2:50 AM, Ben Sturmfels via
<help-guix@gnu.org> wrote:
> Hi Folks!
>
> I really like the idea of Gnome Tracker - index all your files,
> contacts, etc. so you can quickly search them. It just doesn't seem to
> work properly, it uses a lot of resources and it's behaviour is
> opaque. I'm not sure whether this is the configuration in Guix System,
> or whether Tracker just isn't well designed. My hunch is that it's a
> design problem. Does anyone have good/bad experience with Tracker
> outside of Guix?
>
> Specific issues:
>
> * the tracker-miner-fs-3 process runs spontaneously consuming at least
> one CPU for a few minutes (I haven't kept track of how long or how
> often)
>
> * after all this scanning, searching in Gnome Activities doesn't
> display any matches for the contents of files, only the filenames -
> I thought indexing the contents was the whole point
>
> * when it's busy, tracker-miner-fs-3 seems to ignore `kill` (SIGTERM)
> and needs `kill -9` (SIGKILL) to kill it
>
> * it's not clear exactly what files Tracker is indexing - there doesn't
> appear to be a log - I'd really like to be able to just `tail -f` to
> see what's going on
>
> I'd like to also understand how tracker-miner-fs-3 is started by
> Gnome. It seems to start automatically and restart after some time if
> killed. It doesn't seem to be listed under "Startup Applications" in
> Gnome Tweak Tool.
>
> Debugging Tracker:
>
> After killing it with `pkill --full tracker-miner-fs-3 --echo`, I can
> restart it with some debugging information using:
>
> env TRACKER_DEBUG=config,miner-fs-events,monitors,statistics,status
> /gnu/store/[...]-tracker-miners-3.3.1/libexec/tracker-miner-fs-3
>
> This seems to show some scheduling information about the indexing, but
> not exactly what it's indexing.
>
> Regards,
> Ben
I experienced a very similar situation.
I hate hen it happens. Every time I move a file or I rename something the thing
starts to run and my cpu goes crazy.
On the other hand, this is a recent problem, in previous versions it didn't
happen and I didn't really have more effort searching for files in nautilus or
similar applications. For me, it's just bad.
Also, I don't use GNOME directly, even if I have it installed and use most of
its apps, I run an i3 session, but tracker-miner is still running.
I don't know if that helps.
If I could, I'd like to remove it.
Is it possible?
Thanks,
Ekaitz