Update:
by using htop
instead of cpu monitor
, I figured out that 100% of cpu was used in lower priority by tracker-miner-fs
. I used the following script:
echo -e "\nHidden=true\n" | sudo tee --append /etc/xdg/autostart/tracker-extract.desktop /etc/xdg/autostart/tracker-miner-apps.desktop /etc/xdg/autostart/tracker-miner-fs.desktop /etc/xdg/autostart/tracker-miner-user-guides.desktop /etc/xdg/autostart/tracker-store.desktop > /dev/null
gsettings set org.freedesktop.Tracker.Miner.Files crawling-interval -2
gsettings set org.freedesktop.Tracker.Miner.Files enable-monitors false
tracker reset --hard
Taken from Radu Rădeanu's answer to tracker-store and tracker-miner-fs eating up my CPU on every startup.
Now everything works like a charm.