Bdtyktl

Simply change this values using the gsettings witch will disable the constant indexing of Tracker:

gsettings set org.freedesktop.Tracker.Miner.Files crawling-interval -2  

gsettings set org.freedesktop.Tracker.Miner.Files enable-monitors false

The values could be changed using dconf-editor by navigating through org > freedesktop > Tracker > Miner > Files:

After this changes, it is highly recommended to cleanup the database to reclaim some lost space on the disk:

tracker reset --hard # old command: tracker-control -r

Maybe it's relevant for Ubuntu 14.04/GDM, and if it important to do not remove whole service then will be better to stop and/or renice.

Hence it can be:

Stop/reniced ( not recommended method ):

$ tracker-control -p  

Found 171 PIDs…  

Found process ID NNNN for 'tracker-store'  

Found process ID MMMM for 'tracker-miner-fs'  



$ initctl stop tracker-store && renice -n +19 -p NNNN && initctl start tracker-store

_{Notice people suggest yet tracker-control -r and maybe for systems with indexing enabled this will be better:}

$ tracker-control -e

OR the same with System Monitor GUI:

Applications > Utilities > System Monitor

• sort > Name


• scroll > tracker-store


• right click > Stop Process


• right click > Change Priority > Very Low


• right click > Continue Process

OR maybe the most appropriate way for systems with running tracker-store:

Applications > System Tools > Search & Indexing

An up to date version for Ubuntu 16.04:

echo -e "nHidden=truen"|sudo tee --append /etc/xdg/autostart/tracker-extract.desktop

echo -e "nHidden=truen"|sudo tee --append /etc/xdg/autostart/tracker-miner-apps.desktop

echo -e "nHidden=truen"|sudo tee --append /etc/xdg/autostart/tracker-miner-fs.desktop

echo -e "nHidden=truen"|sudo tee --append /etc/xdg/autostart/tracker-miner-user-guides.desktop

echo -e "nHidden=truen"|sudo tee --append /etc/xdg/autostart/tracker-store.desktop



gsettings set org.freedesktop.Tracker.Miner.Files crawling-interval -2

gsettings set org.freedesktop.Tracker.Miner.Files enable-monitors false



tracker reset --hard

Basically this is a remix of Radu's and Maxwell's answers, but locations and commands have been updated to Ubuntu 16.04 (there were multiple changes).

Enable advanced Startup Applications with this command:

sudo sed -i "s/NoDisplay=true/NoDisplay=false/g" /etc/xdg/autostart/*.desktop

Run Startup Applications and uncheck Tracker File System Miner and the other similar items. They can be re-enabled just as easily.

Using Synaptic, I selected "mark for complete removal" for "tracker", and for "zeitgeist" (kin to using the purge command which is supposed to remove associated components and config files for the program selected). Much more of the zeitgeist tracking software had been installed unknown to me, and so I chose complete removal for all except the zeitgeist shared libraries which looks to be way too embedded in the OS to remove safely. Almost like a dog with a bad case of heart worms, or better yet like a hydra. Chop one head off and there's three more trying to ruin your chi. Sounds pretty much like something microsoft enjoys doing to the people who trust them. Whatever... My laptop now boots in less than half the time, doesn't completely bogg down at random occasionally crashing what I'm using at the time, and it might just be the relief of getting rid of the thing but the rest of the software seems to be running much better without that hydra's heavy tentacles. Aww ferget it... You know what I mean.

Why is it that programs like these have to be brought in quietly through a back door? Perhaps it's because nobody wants that sort of thing on their personal laptop. If I was a tech running server edition on a mainframe that had massive gigs of ram and cores out the wahzoo, then it would be another story. Perhaps then I would like to utilize tracking software. Even then, I would still want it to be an application of my choosing.

Just saying.

your tracker list:

tracker-extract
tracker-store
tracker-miner-apps
tracker-miner-fs
tracker-miner-user-guides

gives me a lot of problems, at startup my CPU (processor) goes up very very very high, say 95% for about 5 or 10 minutes, my hard disks scratch
and if I leave your processes open I have the machine that freezes faster.

The mouse doesn't move anymore and then it's the keyboard.

I'm on a linux-mageia and your trackers are displayed at first I thought they were spyware because the name: "tracker-miner" is more like an application that will undermine bitcoins.

I have a really very powerful machine for work, a "ryzen7" and I fear that your little crabs are very badly made for big machines, because when I kill your processes, I have a 25% chance that the machine freezes

if I don't kill them, I have a 75% chance of getting crashes,
you should apply limits to your trackers and to the passage change your name: because "miner" is more like darknet.

I didn't have this problem with a less powerful machine, don't waste your time replying to me my message and one-way.

Good luck in solving the problem :)