I have the exact same issue as gert7. Tracker-extract fills my entire memory until kernel kills the process, after which tracker-extract gets started again with the same situation after a few seconds. The only way to make the system usable again is to forcibly kill all tracker processes.
While clogging up the memory, tracker-extract also gives some errors to journalctl like this, on two specific .dds files. >Apr 23 17:04:27 apfelgriebs-desktop tracker-extract[3527]: Call to gst_discoverer_discover_uri(file:///[...]/[...].dds) failed: Internal data stream error. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded 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: Incomplete 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/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
