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user57234

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[SOLVED] My system is getting slow (losing 1GB HDD every 3 minutes)

Hi,

after the latest updates yesterday pacman -Syu (most of them was for gnome) my system is running out of disk really quickly. when I startup I have 72GB free disk space, then every 3 minutes (or so) I am losing 1GB (I run df -h frequently in order to see it). I have clean orphan packages: pacman -Rs $(pacman -Qqtd) I have clean cache: pacman -Sc and all these made no difference. I've notice that the /home/myuser/.cache/tracker file is 81G is this normal? Is it safe to delete? What else I should check?

Thanks in advance.

Last edited by user57234 (2017-10-09 17:58:01)

jasonwryan

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Re: [SOLVED] My system is getting slow (losing 1GB HDD every 3 minutes)

Something is runing amok and it does sound like tracker (whatever that is)...

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user57234

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Re: [SOLVED] My system is getting slow (losing 1GB HDD every 3 minutes)

Hi, this is tracker (from gnome) https://www.archlinux.org/packages/?sor … =&flagged= also by HDD light on my laptop is always on.. before the updates was blinking only when was reading data from disk.. and as I am posting to Arch Forums, already my free disk space went from 72GB to 52GB.

Last edited by user57234 (2017-10-08 22:56:44)

user57234

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Re: [SOLVED] My system is getting slow (losing 1GB HDD every 3 minutes)

I am thinking to install XFCE until next updates (not sure if this will help). Also /home/myuser/.cache/tracker is stable to 81GB.

circleface

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Re: [SOLVED] My system is getting slow (losing 1GB HDD every 3 minutes)

I don't use Gnome, but surely there is some way to stop tracker from running?  It looks like tracker is just a way to search for files really quickly, so it sounds like you could do without it until it is fixed.

user57234

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Re: [SOLVED] My system is getting slow (losing 1GB HDD every 3 minutes)

Hi, which desktop software you use? KDE?

circleface

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Re: [SOLVED] My system is getting slow (losing 1GB HDD every 3 minutes)

I use dwm on my machine, which has nothing like tracker to slow it down or eat up hard drive space or anything.

user57234

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Re: [SOLVED] My system is getting slow (losing 1GB HDD every 3 minutes)

Hi,

cool desktop, looks advance.

So, after searching I've found some info here https://fosswire.com/post/2009/04/quick … r-indexes/
and i have just removed:

~/.local/share/tracker
~/.cache/tracker

and after reboot looks like the problem gone, I am checking df -h frequently,
seems ok now.

Let's see how it goes until tomorrow,
and if is all ok, then I'll make this topic as solved,
thanks for the interest.

Last edited by user57234 (2017-10-08 23:55:51)

user57234

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Re: [SOLVED] My system is getting slow (losing 1GB HDD every 3 minutes)

Ok, that was it, problem solved.

Thanks.