Thanks for providing the 'minimap_area.dds' file. How many other files are there in the same directory? And what is the total size of all of these .dds files?
Running `tracker extract` on the given gives the following message: Call to gst_discoverer_discover_uri(file:///.../minimap_area.dds) failed: Internal data stream error. file:///.../minimap_area.dds: No metadata or extractor modules found to handle this file I think this is pretty normal, that GStreamer's type detection code sometimes reports an error when it fails to detect the type of a file. Running with `env GST_DEBUG=2` doesn't show any unexpected messages. Running under `valgrind` doesn't show any dramatic memory leak. It's possible that this code path blows up on some larger files that are in the same directory, though. Could you run `tracker extract *` inside the problematic directory and see what happens? (This will run in the foreground so you should be able to CTRL+c if it starts to eat all your RAM ... which it hopefully will do so we can narrow down the problem :). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to tracker in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1825963 Title: Abysmal memory leak on tracker-extract Status in tracker package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: After upgrading from 18.10 to 19.04 my Ubuntu desktop started lagging madly. It became very difficult to use and I discovered the problem to be tracker-extract running and very rapidly leaking memory up to 100% and breaching into swap memory. I tried killing it several times but Tracker appears to relaunch it every time, so I deleted it from /usr/lib/tracker entirely. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 19.04 Package: tracker 2.1.8-2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.0.0-13.14-generic 5.0.6 Uname: Linux 5.0.0-13-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.10-0ubuntu27 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME Date: Tue Apr 23 13:02:25 2019 InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-03-11 (42 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.10 "Cosmic Cuttlefish" - Release amd64 (20181017.3) SourcePackage: tracker UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to disco on 2019-04-23 (0 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tracker/+bug/1825963/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
