Just upgraded and the tracker-miner process is taking a constant cpu load of about 15%, and iotop shows a constant disk write that varies between 2 and 11 M/s.

It has been like this for a couple hours and shows no signs of stopping. Is this some expected behavior? Can I disable it? i’m worried about affecting my ssd lifespan.

  • nossaquesapaoOP
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    7 months ago

    Just checked the logs, and they have thousands of this error: Failed to start tracker-miner-fs-3.service - Tracker file system data miner.

    But I can’t find more info about what’s happening

    • BCsven@lemmy.ca
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      7 months ago

      Its been 6 years since I tackled this so i forget. but from command prompt you can start by checking status of tracker miner service then trying stop /start. There are also tracker miner commands to pause, refresh cache, monitor etc. so you would have to lookup what those are. it could even be a permission issue, or version issue