[bug][1.1.9.28] tracker-miner-fs stuck in a loop

Was about to file a report here, because I'm hit by this, too. Reboot doesn't help, killing tacker doesn't help. After 3 hours uptime the battery is only 54%.

Btw, it only started today or yesterday evening, before it all worked normally. Yesterday evening I started to let FlowPlayer index files and download covers. Possible connection of these two?

This is a real showstopper, as I can't take my Jolla with me for more than a half day :(

@dalas.revo: Reboot seems to have worked in my case, at least a bit - tracker is still running after reboot, still consumes 100% CPU (50% miner, 50% store) but does not use all the memory as before and does not flood the log with the Resource temporarily unavailable messages. But it could be that it will only get stuck later.

Do you also have FlowPlayer? Does it interfere with tracker in any way?

@dalas.revo: I also have it but I don't think I have started it recently ad it IIRC does not have any daemon component.

As for whats happening now:

• I have disconnected my Jolla from the USB cable and went out
• the device is usable and has not run out of battery power after a few hours outside
• still when I run top I can still see the tracker-miner-fs consuming 50% of CPU time and tracker-store consuming also 50%! (we have two cores so that should mean tracker is maxing on of them to 100%)
• thankfully they together consume just ~4% of RAM, not the ~50% as during the loop before

Still, this is something I would expect to happen on AC power, not when running from battery. I think the only reason my Jolla has not run out of battery due to maxed-out CPU just yet is the hard suspend Jolla does when the screen is off. Otherwise I'm pretty sure the battery would be empty. I would kinda think tracker would be more constrained for on-battery operation.

Another think I have noticed - tracker-miner-fs has a nice of 19 while tracker-store has the default value (0). This is kinda weird as due to the similarly high memory usage they appear to be basically feeding each other, so different nice value looks weird.

Sorry for not answering for so long, had visitors over the weekend. I didn't think about a daemon but more about a corrupted database, but I do know too little about the way tracker works. Anyway, what I am experiencing now is this: My device is nearly unusable, because

• battery drains very fast, lasts only for half a day
• top/Lighthouse show 100% usage of CPU, top 40...50% for each tracker-store and tracker-miner
• 40...45% memory used by tracker-store
• after night (on charger): absolutely unusable, as every app closes right away (OOM-killer?). no possibility to check via terminal nor via top (had no opportunity to connect via ssh)

If till this evening no one from Jolla steps in and helps or I don't find any other way to stop this, I have to reset my device :( I need it and can't charge it every 5 hours.

@dalas.revo: Maybe try the "reset tracker database" option in Sailfish Utilities before doing a full reset ?

@MartinK Thanks for this suggestion. I thought Utilities was broken in the last releases, so I didn't think of this. Well I tried it and now I only have 50...60% load and nearly no memory consumption. I'l monitor what happens and report back. Other idea would be to hard-reset all this via terminal as suggested in

https://together.jolla.com/question/72990/sailfish-utilities-tracker-reset/

Cheers Daniel