Public bug reported: Tracker miners (for example tracker-miner-fs-3) are started for GDM, lightdm, other system users, and waste RAM + SSD resources. I don't think tracker miners should be started for such users. At https://bugs.debian.org/981089 I've found solution how to fix this important issue - I'm pasting with trivial change to work on Ubuntu 22.04 and newer:
The fix is to change one line in all tracker-miners systemd files: /usr/lib/systemd/user/tracker-miner-fs-3.service /usr/lib/systemd/user/tracker-miner-fs-control-3.service /usr/lib/systemd/user/tracker-extract-3.service From: ConditionUser=!root To: ConditionUser=!@system On running system you can run simple sed command: sed -i 's|ConditionUser=!root|ConditionUser=!@system|' /usr/lib/systemd/user/tracker-{extract-3,miner-fs-*}.service I can provide a debdiff if you can include this trivial patch into LTS release. ** Affects: tracker-miners (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Affects: tracker-miners (Debian) Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown ** Tags: jammy patch ** Patch added: "disable tracker-miners for system-users - patch" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2007755/+attachment/5648305/+files/disable_tracker-miners_for_system-users.patch ** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #981089 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=981089 ** Also affects: tracker-miners (Debian) via https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=981089 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to tracker-miners in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2007755 Title: Tracker miners (eg. tracker-miner-fs-3) are started for GDM and other system users To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tracker-miners/+bug/2007755/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs