Hi,
------- Original Message ------- On Thursday, August 18th, 2022 at 2:50 AM, Ben Sturmfels via <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Folks! > > I really like the idea of Gnome Tracker - index all your files, > contacts, etc. so you can quickly search them. It just doesn't seem to > work properly, it uses a lot of resources and it's behaviour is > opaque. I'm not sure whether this is the configuration in Guix System, > or whether Tracker just isn't well designed. My hunch is that it's a > design problem. Does anyone have good/bad experience with Tracker > outside of Guix? > > Specific issues: > > * the tracker-miner-fs-3 process runs spontaneously consuming at least > one CPU for a few minutes (I haven't kept track of how long or how > often) > > * after all this scanning, searching in Gnome Activities doesn't > display any matches for the contents of files, only the filenames - > I thought indexing the contents was the whole point > > * when it's busy, tracker-miner-fs-3 seems to ignore `kill` (SIGTERM) > and needs `kill -9` (SIGKILL) to kill it > > * it's not clear exactly what files Tracker is indexing - there doesn't > appear to be a log - I'd really like to be able to just `tail -f` to > see what's going on > > I'd like to also understand how tracker-miner-fs-3 is started by > Gnome. It seems to start automatically and restart after some time if > killed. It doesn't seem to be listed under "Startup Applications" in > Gnome Tweak Tool. > > Debugging Tracker: > > After killing it with `pkill --full tracker-miner-fs-3 --echo`, I can > restart it with some debugging information using: > > env TRACKER_DEBUG=config,miner-fs-events,monitors,statistics,status > /gnu/store/[...]-tracker-miners-3.3.1/libexec/tracker-miner-fs-3 > > This seems to show some scheduling information about the indexing, but > not exactly what it's indexing. > > Regards, > Ben I experienced a very similar situation. I hate hen it happens. Every time I move a file or I rename something the thing starts to run and my cpu goes crazy. On the other hand, this is a recent problem, in previous versions it didn't happen and I didn't really have more effort searching for files in nautilus or similar applications. For me, it's just bad. Also, I don't use GNOME directly, even if I have it installed and use most of its apps, I run an i3 session, but tracker-miner is still running. I don't know if that helps. If I could, I'd like to remove it. Is it possible? Thanks, Ekaitz
