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I am using Arch Linux, kernel 3.16.
From last one week my two processes tracker-extract and tracker-store are taking too much RAM. It results in hangup of system once in every 2 hours.
tracker-extract taking 300 MB and tracker -store taking 2 GB RAM.(total RAM is 3.8 GB)
I want to know what are these tracker processes and what are their work. If i kill them does this effect in system performance ?
What are the ways to kill them permanently so that I can get rid of these two processes?
Please help me.
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tracker extract reads the file provided and extracts any metadata it can from this file, then displays the metadata on standard output. The metadata is displayed as a SPARQL update command, that can be run against a SPARQL endpoint to update its copy of the metadata. The actual extraction is done by a separate process.
The official way of disabling Tracker on Gnome desktops is to go to Settings -> Search , and turn off the switch from the search settings headerbars (top of the window).
Tracker, which is enabled by default in Ubuntu since 19.10, is a file metadata indexer. It indexes your files to allow for fast searching for content in files from Files or Gnome Documents, find pictures in Gnome Photos, allow to rename files based on metadata, and so on.
It's a search engine, and a database. Tracker Miner FS indexes content from your home directory automatically, so applications can provide instant search results when you need them. See the overview for more information.
Tracker is used (by gnome) to index files to make them searchable and appear automatically in some programs (like Rhythmbox for music files, etc). More info from the Ubuntu wiki on it here https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Tracker.
You can do a hard reset of the tags database and restart all the tracker processes with this command:
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