How to configure tracker-extract so it has a higher nice value?

Question

I suffer each time I return from a pause and I find my desktop stalled because the priority of tracker-extract consumes too much CPU (sometimes 104%), so I have to kill thru terminal the task (tracker-miner-fs, tracker-extract, and tracker-store) in order to return to my regular desktop activities.

I understand the importance of this program, but I do not want to solve its niceness issue every time by hand. And I do not want to remove it definetely.

Is there a configuration file so I can set it to my personal taste (I will choose a higher value so it really executes on a low priority level)?

Thanks

score 5 · Accepted Answer · edited Jul 24 '19 at 15:14

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Tracker's settings are now on dconf database, Managed through dconf-editor (GUI) or gsettings (CLI) under the org.freedesktop.Tracker.* tree:

For Ubuntu 16.04, you could set indexing to run in the background with tracker-preferences. If that command wasn't already installed, you could install it with sudo apt install tracker-gui

After its initial complete index run, tracker — at least on a machine with SSD storage that isn't receiving huge dumps of new files — shouldn't take a significant time to run. If you find that tracker has locked up, I have suggested a solution here.

edited Jul 24 '19 at 15:14

Pablo Bianchi

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answered May 12 '17 at 21:51

scruss

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Although you are correct, it would have been helpful to the questioner if you had explained that to access the tracker-preferences, they should sudo apt-get install tracker-gui – Charles Green May 12 '17 at 22:30
@DavidFoerster I was way to busy playing with the new set of settings! – Charles Green May 13 '17 at 01:51
@scruss Thank you! Your answer is supercomplete. I also checked yourlink to the solution, which is exactly what I need to understand tracker issues. – LobaLuna Oct 18 '18 at 16:32
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tracker-gui is only present on 16.04 – Pablo Bianchi Jul 24 '19 at 03:28
Seems so, @PabloBianchi. Settings now seem to be in gsettings – scruss Jul 24 '19 at 12:19
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Did you know which key on dconf db is related to tracker-extract niceness/priority/CPU usage? – Pablo Bianchi Jul 24 '19 at 15:17
@PabloBianchi You have to set sched-idle to 'always'. – Ullallulloo Feb 21 '21 at 17:03

How to configure tracker-extract so it has a higher nice value?

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