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20 October 2012

261. Disable tracker-miner-fs

Looking at my ~/.local/share/tracker folder I've got 1.5 Gb wasting away. Also, tracker has a way of eating up CPU cycles,. Given that I never do any desktop searches -- I use either 'locate' or 'find' in the terminal and they do exactly what I need -- I don't see much point in allowing tracker to run.

1. If you're in a gui you can run tracker-preferences  and disable the indexing of all folders.

2. To delete existing tracker logs you need to do
tracker-control -r

This kills all running tracker processes and removes the databases.

 3. Finally, edit /etc/xdg/autostart/tracker-miner-fs.desktop and tracker-store.desktop and change

X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=true

to


X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=false
















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8 comments:








  1. OsvaldOo LeOón05 December, 2013 06:09
    Excellent, it was eating up my CPU and Memory 
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  2. Unknown07 January, 2014 00:57
    Thanks, I wanted to get rid of it too.
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  3. Steve Dowe26 June, 2014 02:30
    Thanks for the tip.  It was starting to seriously eat all I/O on my Deb laptop.
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  4. Anonymous11 February, 2015 03:48
    Many thanks !
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  5. Unknown21 May, 2015 03:14
    Thank you so much!
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  6. Unknown10 March, 2016 04:11
    Thank you :-)
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  7. Angeloguvo09 November, 2016 00:56
    Easy, like a piece of art. Thanks!
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  8. Jean-Luc23 December, 2016 17:18
    With tracker 1.10 (Debian flavor) use `tracker reset -r` to kill all running processes and purge the database.
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