Tracker-extract and Tracker-store processes consuming huge Amount of RAM

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Ankith picture Ankith · Nov 4, 2014 · Viewed 38.4k times · Source

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.

Answer

jket picture jket · Aug 2, 2018

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:

tracker reset -r

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