September 2020 Archives
Wed 09 Sep 2020 10:21:29 PM JST
Stopping tracker miner in GNOME
Stopping Gnome tracker miner
Anyone using a GNOME-based linux desktop environment, including MATE as do I, may have noticed vast CPU resources being dedicated to the tracker-miner-fs process at one time or other. Notice meaning, interfering with work or pleasure. It is very very hard to stop this process from interfering, and impossible to remove completely cleanly. There are many options one can try to adjust, such as expluding directories and file types, but for myself that is way too much work for a completely useless process foisted on me unwillingly. I really like MATE overall, otherwise a sane alternative might be to simply switch to Xcfe as a desktop environment instead.
So here is the solution (applicable in September 2020) to stop the filesystem miner from starting up:
gsettings set org.freedesktop.Tracker.Miner.Files enable-monitors false gsettings set org.freedesktop.Tracker.Miner.Files crawling-interval -2 gsettings set org.freedesktop.Tracker.Miner.Files ignored-files "['*']" pkill tracker rm -rf ~/.cache/tracker
Apparently a reboot might be necessary.