Tracker-miner-fs-3 slowy taking all the memory. Running KDE

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Hello,

I am running Manjaro with KDE Plasma, up to date, since a few years.

Since last big upgrade 2 days ago? (I haven’t noticed it before)
I have the process tracker-miner-fs-3 running, and slowly eating all the memory.
After 15 min, the tracker-miner-fs-3 process takes over the 16 Gb of ram available, and PC crashes of slowness.

I tried to uninstall it, since is a gnome thing… but too many program depends on it.
I don’t know what to do. Help ?
I tried to post in the dev section to open bug, but it seems I m not allowed.

Thank You
Feydreva

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Maybe this is related?
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=249533

From a fast read, it may cause a memory leak whenever a GNOME application has an issue and spams logs into the tracker. In which case, a solution would be to open the journal, and if there is such spammed log, act accordingly.
Otherwise, there may be ways to disable tracking as illustrated in the thread.

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➜  ~ journalctl -b |grep tracker

nov. 24 11:59:50 Spychea plasma_session[3032]: org.kde.plasma.session: Starting autostart service  "/etc/xdg/autostart/tracker-miner-fs-3.desktop" ("/usr/lib/tracker-miner-fs-3")

nov. 24 11:59:50 Spychea plasma_session[3032]: org.kde.plasma.session: Starting autostart service  "/etc/xdg/autostart/tracker-miner-rss-3.desktop" ("/usr/lib/tracker-miner-rss-3")

It seems to be started by kde plasma.

If I check for error :

nov. 24 11:50:13 Spychea systemd[1]: Timed out waiting for device /sys/subsystem/net/devices/eth0.
nov. 24 11:50:13 Spychea kernel: FS-Cache: Duplicate cookie detected
nov. 24 11:50:13 Spychea kernel: FS-Cache: O-cookie c=00000000178dcd22 [p=000000006433bf31 fl=222 nc=0 na=1]
nov. 24 11:50:13 Spychea kernel: FS-Cache: O-cookie d=00000000fc8f2fee n=000000005d829f46
nov. 24 11:50:13 Spychea kernel: FS-Cache: O-key=[16] '0400000002000000020008010a000002'
nov. 24 11:50:13 Spychea kernel: FS-Cache: N-cookie c=0000000084f0ddb6 [p=000000006433bf31 fl=2 nc=0 na=1]
nov. 24 11:50:13 Spychea kernel: FS-Cache: N-cookie d=00000000fc8f2fee n=000000000d19e66f
nov. 24 11:50:13 Spychea kernel: FS-Cache: N-key=[16] '0400000002000000020008010a000002'
nov. 24 11:50:13 Spychea kernel: FS-Cache: Duplicate cookie detected
nov. 24 11:50:13 Spychea kernel: FS-Cache: O-cookie c=00000000178dcd22 [p=000000006433bf31 fl=222 nc=0 na=1]
nov. 24 11:50:13 Spychea kernel: FS-Cache: O-cookie d=00000000fc8f2fee n=000000005d829f46
nov. 24 11:50:13 Spychea kernel: FS-Cache: O-key=[16] '0400000002000000020008010a000002'
nov. 24 11:50:13 Spychea kernel: FS-Cache: N-cookie c=00000000dbba5942 [p=000000006433bf31 fl=2 nc=0 na=1]
nov. 24 11:50:13 Spychea kernel: FS-Cache: N-cookie d=00000000fc8f2fee n=000000001eb651ba
nov. 24 11:50:13 Spychea kernel: FS-Cache: N-key=[16] '0400000002000000020008010a000002'
nov. 24 11:50:13 Spychea kernel: FS-Cache: Duplicate cookie detected

There are some bug related to this error, but doest seems to be related (cannot link them:/)

How can I report a bug somewhere ? it should not happen under normal use of the system…
I have disable it from autostarting., thanks for the info on how to do that
The only think I remember doing around that time is : Normal usage, Doing the Manjaro upgrade ( it was a big one) and installing gnucash

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It is not unusual for a desktop environment to start user services when opening.

They look like traces rather than errors.

I have checked those? I’m not sure of the pattern though…

journalctl -u /etc/xdg/autostart/tracker-miner-fs-3.desktop
journalctl /usr/lib/tracker-miner-fs-3

That would be to the developers. But from the linked issue above, nothing may happen if the issue comes from elsewhere…

Does it happen even when you don’t open gnucash?

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