GNOME tracker¶

this is taken from http://www.putorius.net/2014/12/disable-tracker-on-fedora-21-fedora-20.html

Q: I have some tracker processes running high CPU on my machine and can't figure out how to get rid of them. When they are running it makes my video choppy and slows down my machine drastically. I have read several articles on how to uninstall tracker, but they always warn that it could break other applications. Can you give me any help?

A: I have been through the same thing, and it wasn't fun. Tracker is a collection of daemons that run on the system to index your files to make search faster. For more information on what tracker is, you can visit the project page (https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Tracker/WhatIsTracker).

If you are using a higher end system usually tracker doesn't get in your way, except for the initial index. But I have heard problems when people have large amounts of data on a USB drive, or even a network drive and tracker tries to index those locations.

To answer your question, there is no need to uninstall or disable Tracker. You can use the UI to edit the folders which are indexed instead, or you can remove all the folders to be indexed effectively shutting it off.

If you don't already have it installed, let's install the tracker-preferences package like so:

yum install tracker-preferences 

Now you can open the tracker-preferences window by typing tracker-preferences at the command line, or open "Search and Indexing" from the Applications menu. Once opened, you can disable most of the troublesome features.