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quimkaos

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Registered: 2014-09-27

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[Gnome 3.14] - Strange disrupting disk activity

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.

Head_on_a_Stick

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Registered: 2014-02-20

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Re: [Gnome 3.14] - Strange disrupting disk activity

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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quimkaos

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Registered: 2014-09-27

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Re: [Gnome 3.14] - Strange disrupting disk activity

not very useful... but, yep tracker is a...

Last edited by quimkaos (2015-02-02 23:06:35)

ooo

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Re: [Gnome 3.14] - Strange disrupting disk activity

try another DE

you don't actually need tracker to use gnome, apart from a few applications,  so removing tracker would probably be sufficient.

Alad

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Re: [Gnome 3.14] - Strange disrupting disk activity

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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quimkaos

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Registered: 2014-09-27

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Re: [Gnome 3.14] - Strange disrupting disk activity

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

quimkaos

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Re: [Gnome 3.14] - Strange disrupting disk activity

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.