#1005069 tracker: Unable to easily disable tracker

Package:
tracker
Source:
tracker
Description:
metadata database, indexer and search tool
Submitter:
"Bruce Momjian,,,"
Date:
2022-02-09 13:21:02 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1005069#5
Date:
2022-02-06 17:52:52 UTC
From:
To:
Dear Maintainer,

I have 2TB of images in the 'Pictures' directory in my home directory.  Since upgrading to Bullseye, I found that 'tracker' was using significant CPU, even after days, though the Pictures directory content
was unchanged.  I can't remove tracker since gnome-flashback-common and gnome-panel depend on it.  I tried disabling tracker via systemctl disable and systemctl mask, but it was still running.  I tried
several suggested gsettings options, but the only one I found that worked was 'gsettings set org.freedesktop.Tracker.Miner.Files index-recursive-directories "[]"'.

Tracker wasn't using a huge amoutn of CPU, but on my idle system, it was using the most CPU.  I feel it should be easier to disable tracker.