After a Kernel upgrade gnome-tracker beats on my disk for severaal days. Why?

This morning my system wanted to install security updates and it couldn't
because root had filled up.
I found that 23 GB of data as in ~/.cache/tracker in the meta-data
database. I removed that file and rebooted.
I was able to get the updates in, then.

Tracker-miner-r ran for more than 700 mins. and filled up my disk with
about 22 gb of data.
A bug should be opened on this.

The space had been freed up and a went back into Gnome Classic.

I killed the tracker process which had started at boot.

I want to disable tracker in the init scripts until I know what it does and
why it is needed.

I will allow you the chance to give me troubleshooting direction as to find
out why tracker fills up my disk partition which is a generous 70 GB root.

I still find it odd that no one can justify tracker. I can go use KDE as a
result and if that I will consider a different OS. Knoppix and Mint run
quite well from live DVDs. I don't have to run Ubuntu.

On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 12:35 AM, Manfred Hampl <
<email address hidden>> wrote:

> Your question #221874 on tracker in Ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tracker/+question/221874
>
> Project: Ubuntu => tracker in Ubuntu
>
> --
> You received this question notification because you asked the question.
>

I know a little more from tracker-control.

I did 'tracker-control -r' to scrub everything from my cache. Now I need to
pare down the config to get it to only look at a few things. I think that
the problem is that I have too many files. There is 900 gb on an external
disk and my root is about 45GB/70GB. The tracker filled up my root,, so
that is 24 GB. If I can tell it to journal only system files, it may only
use a few GB at most.

Does anyone know ho to config tracker-miner-r?

The wuki at org.freedesktop is really technical and not oriented for
end-users. Ubuntu needs to document this much better.

On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 9:25 AM, bsalem <
<email address hidden>> wrote:

> Your question #221874 on tracker in Ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tracker/+question/221874
>
> You gave more information on the question:
> This morning my system wanted to install security updates and it couldn't
> because root had filled up.
> I found that 23 GB of data as in ~/.cache/tracker in the meta-data
> database. I removed that file and rebooted.
> I was able to get the updates in, then.
>
> Tracker-miner-r ran for more than 700 mins. and filled up my disk with
> about 22 gb of data.
> A bug should be opened on this.
>
> The space had been freed up and a went back into Gnome Classic.
>
> I killed the tracker process which had started at boot.
>
> I want to disable tracker in the init scripts until I know what it does and
> why it is needed.
>
> I will allow you the chance to give me troubleshooting direction as to find
> out why tracker fills up my disk partition which is a generous 70 GB root.
>
> I still find it odd that no one can justify tracker. I can go use KDE as a
> result and if that I will consider a different OS. Knoppix and Mint run
> quite well from live DVDs. I don't have to run Ubuntu.
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 12:35 AM, Manfred Hampl <
> <email address hidden>> wrote:
>
> > Your question #221874 on tracker in Ubuntu changed:
> > https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tracker/+question/221874
> >
> > Project: Ubuntu => tracker in Ubuntu
> >
> > --
> > You received this question notification because you asked the question.
> >
>
> --
> You received this question notification because you asked the question.
>

I may have solved this.

tracker-preferences is a GUI app that allows one to set some choices. I
turned off its checking for removable media, especially an external NTFS
filesystem that is big and slow.

I used tracker-control to scrub ~/.cache/tracker and restart the processes.

$ tracker-control
Found 163 PIDs…
Found process ID 6217 for 'tracker-miner-fs'
Found process ID 6220 for 'tracker-store'

Store:
15 Feb 2013, 11:43:29: ✓ Store - Idle

Miners:
15 Feb 2013, 11:43:29: ✗ Emails - Not running or is a
disabled plugin
15 Feb 2013, 11:43:29: ✓ Applications - Idle
15 Feb 2013, 11:43:29: 1 % File System (PAUSED) - Crawling single
directory '/home/brucesalem'

The ran briefly, according to top, and have much less impact

I think that this question can be closed.

On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 11:15 AM, bsalem <
<email address hidden>> wrote:

> Your question #221874 on tracker in Ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tracker/+question/221874
>
> You gave more information on the question:
> I know a little more from tracker-control.
>
> I did 'tracker-control -r' to scrub everything from my cache. Now I need to
> pare down the config to get it to only look at a few things. I think that
> the problem is that I have too many files. There is 900 gb on an external
> disk and my root is about 45GB/70GB. The tracker filled up my root,, so
> that is 24 GB. If I can tell it to journal only system files, it may only
> use a few GB at most.
>
> Does anyone know ho to config tracker-miner-r?
>
> The wuki at org.freedesktop is really technical and not oriented for
> end-users. Ubuntu needs to document this much better.
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 9:25 AM, bsalem <
> <email address hidden>> wrote:
>
> > Your question #221874 on tracker in Ubuntu changed:
> > https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tracker/+question/221874
> >
> > You gave more information on the question:
> > This morning my system wanted to install security updates and it couldn't
> > because root had filled up.
> > I found that 23 GB of data as in ~/.cache/tracker in the meta-data
> > database. I removed that file and rebooted.
> > I was able to get the updates in, then.
> >
> > Tracker-miner-r ran for more than 700 mins. and filled up my disk with
> > about 22 gb of data.
> > A bug should be opened on this.
> >
> > The space had been freed up and a went back into Gnome Classic.
> >
> > I killed the tracker process which had started at boot.
> >
> > I want to disable tracker in the init scripts until I know what it does
> and
> > why it is needed.
> >
> > I will allow you the chance to give me troubleshooting direction as to
> find
> > out why tracker fills up my disk partition which is a generous 70 GB
> root.
> >
> > I still find it odd that no one can justify tracker. I can go use KDE as
> a
> > result and if that I will consider a different OS. Knoppix and Mint run
> > quite well from live DVDs. I don't have to run Ubuntu.
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 12:35 AM, Manfred Hampl <
> > <email address hidden>> wrote:
> >
> > > Your question #221874 on tracker in Ubuntu changed:
> > > https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tracker/+question/221874
> > >
> > > Project: Ubuntu => tracker in Ubuntu
> > >
> > > --
> > > You received this question notification because you asked the question.
> > >
> >
> > --
> > You received this question notification because you asked the question.
> >
>
> --
> You received this question notification because you asked the question.
>

I have been looking at this for a couple of hours and rebooted for a different reason. The problem (disk busy) did not return. I think that this problem has been solved.