The tracker needs a lot of disk space: root@leopard:/root(10)# ll ~rose/.cache/tracker/ total 7948 -rw-r----- 1 rose rose 1 Apr 25 10:08 db-locale.txt -rw-r----- 1 rose rose 2 Apr 25 10:08 db-version.txt -rw-r----- 1 rose rose 7 Apr 25 10:09 first-index.txt -rw-r----- 1 rose rose 10 Apr 25 10:09 last-crawl.txt -rw-r----- 1 rose rose 6370304 Oct 9 13:09 meta.db -rw-r----- 1 rose rose 32768 Oct 9 13:33 meta.db-shm -rw-r----- 1 rose rose 1354048 Oct 9 13:33 meta.db-wal -rw-r----- 1 rose rose 11 Apr 25 10:09 miner-applications-locale.txt -rw-r----- 1 rose rose 352084 Sep 20 16:03 ontologies.gvdb Is this intentionally or a bug? I see this on several systems. root@leopard:/root(15)# emerge --info Portage 2.1.11.24 (default/linux/amd64/10.0, gcc-4.6.3, glibc-2.15-r3, 3.6.1-gentoo x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-3.6.1-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i7-2600_CPU_@_3.40GHz-with-gentoo-2.2 Timestamp of tree: Mon, 08 Oct 2012 18:30:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 4.2_p37 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.12 dev-lang/python: 2.7.3-r2, 3.2.3-r1 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.9-r1 dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.27.1 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.2 sys-apps/openrc: 0.10.5 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.6 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.69 sys-devel/automake: 1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.6, 1.12.4 sys-devel/binutils: 2.22.90 sys-devel/gcc: 4.6.3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.7.3 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4.2 sys-devel/make: 3.82-r4 sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.6 (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.15-r3 Repositories: gentoo lisp science sunrise bicatali x11 sage-on-gentoo arcon ibormuth java-overlay x-portage x-cpan x-g-octave ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA PUEL Intel-SDP dlj-1.1 skype-eula skype-4.0.0.7-copyright googleearth AdobeFlash-10.3 cadsoft Oracle-BCLA-JavaSE MakeMKV-EULA" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -ggdb" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt /usr/share/openvpn/easy-rsa /var/lib/hsqldb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/dconf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5.4/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5.4/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5.4/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -ggdb" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles news noclean nostrip parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms splitdebug strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch xattr" FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/download/gentoo-mirror http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.wh2.tu-dresden.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/gentoo ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/gentoo ftp://ftp.easynet.nl/mirror/gentoo/ " LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" LINGUAS="de fr ru" MAKEOPTS="-j9" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/var/lib/layman/lisp /var/lib/layman/science /var/lib/layman/sunrise /var/lib/layman/bicatali /var/lib/layman/x11 /var/lib/layman/sage-on-gentoo /var/lib/layman/arcon /var/lib/layman/ibormuth /var/lib/layman/java-overlay /usr/local/portage /var/lib/cpan /var/lib/g-octave" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="64bit R X Xaw3d a52 aac acl acpi admin afs alsa amd64 ao apache2 apng applet archive arpack asf aspell assistant atlas audacious audiofile automap automount bash-completion berkdb blas blast bluetooth bluray boo boost bzip2 cairo cdda cddb cdf cdio cdparanoia cdr cg cgi chm cli consolekit cracklib crypt css cuda cups curl cxx daap db dbi dbm dbus declarative designer devhelp device-mapper dga dia dirac djvu doc dot dri ds2490 ds9097 ds9097u dts dv dvb dvd dvdr dvi dynamicplugin eds egl elf emacs emboss emf encode epiphany evo examples exif expat extensions extra extras faac faad ffmpeg fftw firefox fits flac fltk fontconfig foomaticdb fortran fortran95 fpx fts3 fuse g3dvl gcj gd gdal gdbm gdu gedit geoip geolocation geos gfortran gif gimp git glade glib glpk gml gmp gnome gnome-keyring gnome-print gnuplot gnutls gold gphoto2 gpm grammar graphics graphtft graphviz grass gsl gstreamer gtk gtk3 gudev guile harness hddtemp hdf hdf5 hdri html http httpd hvm hwdb iconv icq icu id3 id3tag ide imagemagick imap inotify ipod ipv6 irda ithreads jabber jadetex java java6 jbig john jpeg jpeg2k kate kdepim kdrive kerberos keymap kpathsea kqemu kvm ladspa lame lapack latex lcms ldap lensfun libffi libkms libnotify libsamplerate live lm_sensors lua lzo mad mail maildir mapnik math matroska media-library mercurial mikmod mkl mmx mmxext mng modules mono motif mozilla mp3 mp4 mpeg mpi mplayer mtp mudflap multilib musepack musicbrainz mysql mysqli nautilus ncurses netcdf netpbm network networking networkmanager nfs nls nntp nptl nsplugin ntfs ntp numpy nvidia obex objc ocaml ocr octave odbc ofa ogdi ogg openexr opengl openmp overview pam pcre pda pdf perl plotutils plugins png podcast policykit portaudio posix postgres postscript ppds pppd preview-latex proj projectm projectx pstricks pulseaudio python python-bindings q16 q32 qemu qhull qt3support qt4 quicktime raw readline reiserfs reports rle romio rpc rrdcgi rrdtool sage samba sasl schroedinger science sdk sdl secure-delete semantic-desktop server session shout sip slang slp smart smbclient smp sms sndfile snmp soap sockets soup sox speex spell sql sqlite sse sse2 sse4 ssl subtitles subversion sudo suexec svg svm swig szip t1lib tcl tcpd tex tex4ht texmacs tgif theora thesaurus threads thunderbird tidy tiff tk tools truetype udev unicode usb userlocales utempter vaapi vdpau video virtualbox visio vorbis wav webdav webdav-serf webkit wmf wxwidgets x264 xa xattr xcb xemacs xetex xext xft xine xml xmlreader xmlrpc xpm xv xvid xvmc yaml youtube zlib zvbi" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic auth_digest authn_anon authn_dbd authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock dbd deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers ident imagemap include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation proxy proxy_ajp proxy_balancer proxy_connect proxy_http rewrite setenvif so speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan sheets stage tables krita karbon braindump" CAMERAS="canon fuji ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" CURL_SSL="nss" DRACUT_MODULES="caps lvm mdraid syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" LINGUAS="de fr ru" NETBEANS_MODULES="apisupport cnd dlight enterprise ergonomics groovy gsf harness ide identity j2ee java mobility nb php profiler ruby websvccommon xml" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3" PYTHON_TARGETS="python3_2 python2_7" QEMU_SOFTMMU_TARGETS="arm i386 x86_64" QEMU_USER_TARGETS="arm i386 x86_64" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18 ruby19" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nouveau vesa" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, USE_PYTHON
There is a preferences for this in tracker-preferences. By default tracker can consume as much space as it needs it seems (just checked on a freshly installed machine).
Could you please check with 0.14.3. ChangeLog has an entry about not eating multi GB of disk space.
'ls -l' says more than 600 MB: root@leopard:/root(53)# qlist -Iv tracker app-misc/tracker-0.14.3 gnome-extra/nautilus-tracker-tags-0.14.3 root@leopard:/root(54)# ll ~rose/.cache/tracker/ total 648224 -rw-r----- 1 rose rose 1 Apr 25 2012 db-locale.txt -rw-r----- 1 rose rose 2 Apr 25 2012 db-version.txt -rw-r----- 1 rose rose 7 Apr 25 2012 first-index.txt -rw-r----- 1 rose rose 10 Apr 25 2012 last-crawl.txt -rw-r----- 1 rose rose 653062144 Oct 29 10:25 meta.db -rw-r----- 1 rose rose 98304 Nov 1 04:24 meta.db-shm -rw-r----- 1 rose rose 10240000 Nov 1 04:24 meta.db-wal -rw-r----- 1 rose rose 11 Apr 25 2012 miner-applications-locale.txt -rw-r----- 1 rose rose 352084 Sep 20 16:03 ontologies.gvdb 'du -s' says only 45 MB: root@leopard:/root(55)# du -s ~rose/.local/share/tracker/ 45140 /home/rose/.local/share/tracker/
(In reply to comment #3) > 'ls -l' says more than 600 MB: > 'du -s' says only 45 MB: It's not the same folders :) Btw, if you want to check if the new tracker works better, it is likely that you would have to tell it to reindex everything like so: $ tracker-control -r $ tracker-control -s
> It's not the same folders :) Thanks, sometimes I am blind. rose@leopard:/home/rose(57)$ tracker-control -r Found 286 PIDs… Could not stat() file:'/proc/4262/cmdline', Fehler beim Holen der Informationen für Datei »/proc/4262/cmdline«: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefundenCould not stat() file:'/proc/4263/cmdline', Fehler beim Holen der Informationen für Datei »/proc/4263/cmdline«: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefundenCould not stat() file:'/proc/4264/cmdline', Fehler beim Holen der Informationen für Datei »/proc/4264/cmdline«: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefundenCould not stat() file:'/proc/4266/cmdline', Fehler beim Holen der Informationen für Datei »/proc/4266/cmdline«: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefundenProzesskennung 8818 für »tracker-miner-fs« gefunden Prozess 8818 wurde getötet Prozesskennung 8822 für »tracker-store« gefunden Prozess 8822 wurde getötet Setting up monitor for changes to config file:'/home/rose/.config/tracker/tracker-control.cfg' Setting database locations Checking database directories exist Checking database version Checking database files exist Removing all database/storage files Removing first index file:'/home/rose/.cache/tracker/first-index.txt' Removing last crawl file:'/home/rose/.cache/tracker/last-crawl.txt' Removing database:'/home/rose/.cache/tracker/meta.db' Removing journal:'/home/rose/.local/share/tracker/data/tracker-store.journal' Removing db-version file:'/home/rose/.cache/tracker/db-version.txt' Removing db-locale file:'/home/rose/.cache/tracker/db-locale.txt' rose@leopard:/home/rose(58)$ tracker-control -s Indizierung wird gestartet … ✓ Dateisystem ✓ E-Mails ✓ Anwendungen rose@leopard:/home/rose(59)$ du -s ~rose/.cache/tracker/ ~rose/.local/share/tracker/ 6852 /home/rose/.cache/tracker/ 9352 /home/rose/.local/share/tracker/ This looks so far better. I will continue my observations.
I guess by now if there was a problem you would have commented again here :) Closing fixed. Thanks for reporting.
