Yeah, unfortunately, that tracker thing is a pretty badly behaved piece of software. Did you ever run into in focal or later?
** Changed in: tracker (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete -- 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/1126537 Title: gnome-Tracker fills up my root with 27GB after kernel update Status in tracker package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: Top shows 814:44.76 tracker-miner-f process now been running for 800 mins. after software-update installed a new kernal. This is the second time this has happened. This is poorly documented software, no description of the metadata anywhere or any justification for why this softare runs or is needed. For all I know it could e malicious. I do not like any software that keeps my disk continually busy for three days without expaination. I am going to find the line in the init scripts that kicks this off and comment it out. $ ubuntu_release LSB Version: core-2.0-ia32:core-2.0-noarch:core-3.0-ia32:core-3.0-noarch:core-3.1-ia32:core-3.1-noarch:core-3.2-ia32:core-3.2-noarch:core-4.0-ia32:core-4.0-noarch Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 11.10 Release: 11.10 Codename: oneiric $ uname -a Linux brucesalem-FQ582AA-ABA-SR5710F 3.0.0-31-generic #48-Ubuntu SMP Mon Feb 4 13:25:59 UTC 2013 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux I challenge anyone to explain why this process should be running. I am ssurely tempted to hange my window manager and possibly dump Ubuntu and not use Gnome on any other Linux. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tracker/+bug/1126537/+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