My problem was with the CPU being throttled to 500Mhz if I turned the power supply on at the wrong time during boot up. Nothing to do with tracker-miner-f.
Please delete my bug report! ** This bug is no longer a duplicate of bug 1961540 tracker-miner-fs-3 massive CPU usage and system slowdown ** Changed in: tracker (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid ** Description changed: - tracker-miner-f has been using 100% CPU and my system making it almost - unresponsive. This happens around once a month or so when I boot up. It - sometimes lasts for a number of days (or a number of resets) until the - system becomes responsive again. - - The command "tracker status" always shows the same thing: "Estimated - less than one second left" although it appears that everything is - already indexed because the file and folder counts do not increase. - - Even so tracker-miner-f is still showing 100% CPU - - -------------------------------------------- - - inspiron@Inspiron-7348:~$ tracker status - Currently indexed: 101154 files, 16046 folders - Remaining space on database partition: 160.5 GB (64.11%) - Data is still being indexed: Estimated less than one second left - - -------------------------------------------- - - inspiron@Inspiron-7348:~$ tracker status - Currently indexed: 101155 files, 16045 folders - Remaining space on database partition: 161.1 GB (64.31%) - Data is still being indexed: Estimated 01h 19m 03s left - - ProblemType: Bug - DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04 - Package: tracker 2.3.6-0ubuntu1 - ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.11.0-37.41~20.04.2-generic 5.11.22 - Uname: Linux 5.11.0-37-generic x86_64 - ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.20 - Architecture: amd64 - CasperMD5CheckResult: skip - CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME - Date: Thu Oct 21 08:25:58 2021 - InstallationDate: Installed on 2021-06-28 (114 days ago) - InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 20.04.2.0 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Release amd64 (20210209.1) - SourcePackage: tracker - UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) - - -------------------------------------------- - - UPDATE - - I have now reset the tracker and it seems to be going through and - indexing everything again. - - tracker reset --hard - - Now tracker-miner-f has re-indexed everything and tracker-extract and - tracker-store are running. - - -------------------------------------------- - - UPDATE 2 - - The tracker reset completed indexing everything and the went into idle - state. However when rebooting, tracker-miner-f went to 100% CPU once - again. + Invalid. ** Information type changed from Public to Private -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to tracker in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1947920 Title: tracker-miner-f 100% CPU and slows system down To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tracker/+bug/1947920/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs