gnome-Tracker fills up my root with 27GB after kernel update
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| tracker (Ubuntu) |
Expired
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
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814:44.76 tracker-miner-f
process now been running for 800 mins. after software-update installed a new kernal.
This is the second time this has happened.
This is poorly documented software, no description of the metadata anywhere or any justification for why this softare runs or
is needed. For all I know it could e malicious.
I do not like any software that keeps my disk continually busy for three days without expaination.
I am going to find the line in the init scripts that kicks this off and comment it out.
$ ubuntu_release
LSB Version: core-2.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 11.10
Release: 11.10
Codename: oneiric
$ uname -a
Linux brucesalem-
I challenge anyone to explain why this process should be running.
I am ssurely tempted to hange my window manager and possibly dump Ubuntu and not use Gnome on any other Linux.
| bsalem (bruce-euphon) wrote | #1 |
| Rolf Leggewie (r0lf) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in tracker (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Incomplete |
| Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote | #3 |
| Changed in tracker (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | Incomplete → Expired |
Today my root had filled up.
I found that there was a tracker database file of 27 GB in ~/.cache/tracker. I removed it and rebooted.
When the system rebooted I ran top and saw that the tracker-miner-r had started and I killed it.
I have researched tracker-control and did 'tracker-control -r' to scrub the things on my cache.
I want to either disable the process from starting at boot or reconfig it to save lots less data.
I notice the following:$ tracker-control -l
Found 0 miners running
brucesalem :~
$ tracker-control -a
Found 3 miners installed:
org.freedeskt
org.freedeskt
org.freedeskt
can I disable the last one? I suspect that is where most of the cruff is comming from.