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tracker-miner-fs constantly takes 100% cpu load

Asked by Kfftfuftur

tracker-miner-fs-3 is constantly taking 100% of my CPU.

I think this is the cause for Nautilus becoming unresponsive when searching.

I don't know why the issue only manifested itself recently, according to /var/log/apt/history.log there weren't any recent updates to the packages "tracker", "tracker-extract", "tracker-miner-fs", also reinstalling those packages didn't help. Maybe some other update broke it?

Also deleting ~/.cache/tracker3 caused tracker to momentarily take a higher more CPU load, probably since it was re-indexing, but then returned to a constant 100%.

There was an issue between tracker3 and sqlite that could be related:
https://sqlite.org/forum/forumpost/1061e627d0199e8c

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Bernard Stafford (bernard010) said : 		#1

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tracker-miners/+bug/1970805
You may want to join this bug report, very similar.
Open a Terminal[ctl+alt+t] : lsb_release -a; uname -a
Please, Paste Output here.

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Kfftfuftur (kfftfuftur) said : 		#2

> lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS
Release: 22.04
Codename: jammy

> uname -a
Linux kfftfuftur-MS-7B09 5.15.0-58-generic #64-Ubuntu SMP Thu Jan 5 11:43:13 UTC 2023 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

I found the problem myself.
There were about 400k json and jpeg files in my Documents folder which I placed there temporarily.
Apparently tracker decided that it wanted to index those slowing it way down.

I think that there should be some changes to tracker so it won't be overwhelmed by too many files.
Tracker integration in other apps like Nautilus should also be reworked such that those apps don't become unresponsive when tracker doesn't reply.