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From sometime now, I've been having some strange disk activity in my Arch box. The disk activity simply goes bezerk every time i reboot or search inside nautilus or the "dash".
I know i changed something relative to file indexing/searching but i don't remember what. I installed iotop, so i could see what's going on with the I/O "layer", and i get tracker-store [pool], tracker-miner-fs, tracker-miner-fs [pool] using 80 to 99% of I/O and using it only for read from disk.
This is really hampering down my work flow!
Does anyone has any suggestion how to fix this?
Thanks in advance.
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Yeah tracker-miner is a b**** -- try another DE
EDIT: Sorry, I shouldn't have posted that, it's not very useful
Last edited by Head_on_a_Stick (2015-02-02 22:39:10)
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not very useful... but, yep tracker is a...
Last edited by quimkaos (2015-02-02 23:06:35)
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try another DE
you don't actually need tracker to use gnome, apart from a few applications, so removing tracker would probably be sufficient.
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Yes, indexing is fantastic, but the DE implementations are usually utter crap. If you have an application that "depends" on tracker but doesn't really, just create a blank PKGBUILD (cf. https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/akonadi-fake/)
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well, in dconf, i changed in org > freedesktop > Tracker > Miner > Files, crawling-interval to -2 and disabled enable-monitors and it's better. Instead of having 5-10 processes hogging I/O at the same time, i only have 1 tracker-store at start up (for about 15mn) and some tracker-miner-fs that some times pops up.
Also i changed, in Search & Indexing, the limitation to "only when computer is not being used".
Thanks all for the replys
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I think i found a solution. Hope it works to anyone having the same issue. Just clear the tracker cache:
rm -rf ~/.cache/tracker/*
tracker-control -r
I think in my case i had a corrupted file. My ~/.cache/tracker/meta.db was 2.1GB and it's usually about 1KB.
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