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nbd2

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Registered: 2025-01-21

Posts: 1

localsearch-extractor-3 uses over 50GiB of memory

I installed Arch Linux for the first time and experienced a bizarre phenomenon. I left my desktop idle with Firefox open (no tabs) and no other visible programs running. I found it weird that my fan was spinning wildly so I opened System Monitor. To my surprise, a process named "localsearch-extractor-3" was taking up over 90%, or 50GiB+ of memory. The system automatically shut down the process when it ate up the entire memory. However, it restarted again, slowly crawled up to 25%, and then disappeared. What is this process? Am I infected?

localsearch-extractor-3

Priority
Very Low (19)

Command Line
/usr/lib/localsearch-extractor-3 --socket-fd 3

Waiting Channel
0

Control Group
/user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service/background.slice/localsearch-3.service

jonno2002

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Registered: 2016-11-21

Posts: 856

Re: localsearch-extractor-3 uses over 50GiB of memory

a quick search for "localsearch-extractor-3" returned this, its part of Gnome
run this command and check what requires it on your system:

pacman -Qi localsearch

if its not required then remove it

i seem to remember back in the day i removed tracker-miner from my systems that had it, its not malicous, its an indexing service