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I purchased a new acer i7-1165G7 @ 2.80GHz × 8 laptop installed ubuntu 20.04 along with dual boot Windows. Whenever I start the laptop either in windows or ubuntu both are making very loud noise. I suspected fan was faulty so I gave it to replace it. Now the laptop came with replaced fan still it is creating too loud unbeareable noise. When I see the processes via top more than 100% cpu consumption is going on for tracker-miner-f and tracker-extract for at least more than half an hour. Please let me know what should I do get rid of this noise? You can see the screenshots of top command here.

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user3704712
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Even if you disable all the Search functions in settings, the tracker stuff still runs. I don't have any use for it so I have found the following two commands seem to disable everything for me. I have not noticed any issues by doing this:

tracker reset --hard

systemctl --user mask tracker-{miner-apps,miner-fs,store}

codlord
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Make tracker-miner-fs, tracker-extract,tracker-store non executables. It's a workaround but it works.

sudo chmod -x /usr/libexec/tracker-miner-fs
sudo chmod -x /usr/libexec/tracker-extract
sudo chmod -x /usr/libexec/tracker-store
wasabi
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Source: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Tracker

Disabling tracker globally (for all users)

for Ubuntu 22 LTS

  • Edit /etc/xdg/autostart/tracker-miner-fs-3.desktop file with root priviledges
  • Add Hidden=true to the end of the file

for older Ubuntu versions

  • Edit /etc/xdg/autostart/trackerd.desktop file with root privileges
  • Add Hidden=true to the end of the file
  • Do the same for /etc/xdg/autostart/tracker-applet.desktop if you want

Disabling tracker for current user only

for Ubuntu 22 LTS

  • Not tested (instructions for older Ubuntu versions may work, please comment)

for older Ubuntu versions

  • Enter the directory ~/.config/autostart, create it if it does not exist
  • Create a file named trackerd.desktop
  • Paste the following into the file, save and exit
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Tracker
Hidden=true
igor
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