I'm not sure if this is the same issue or if it should be reported on its own. But in my case, the miner was filling my / partition by filling the syslog with repeated logs.
The following message gets repeated endlessly: Jan 25 12:44:04 localhost tracker-miner-f[14902]: File 'file:///path/to/directory/in/Downloads' has been reenqueued more than 2 times. It will not be indexed. Jan 25 12:44:04 localhost tracker-miner-f[14902]: File 'file:///path/to/directory/in/Downloads/file' has been reenqueued more than 2 times. It will not be indexed. Jan 25 12:44:04 localhost tracker-miner-f[14902]: (Sparql buffer) Error in task 0 (file:///home/danny/Downloads) of the array-update: UNIQUE constraint failed: nie:DataObject.nie:url Jan 25 12:44:04 localhost tracker-miner-f[14902]: Could not execute sparql: UNIQUE constraint failed: nie:DataObject.nie:url Jan 25 12:44:04 localhost tracker-miner-f[14902]: (Sparql buffer) Error in task 0 (file:///home/danny/Downloads) of the array-update: UNIQUE constraint failed: nie:DataObject.nie:url Jan 25 12:44:04 localhost tracker-miner-f[14902]: Could not execute sparql: UNIQUE constraint failed: nie:DataObject.nie:url Jan 25 12:44:04 localhost tracker-miner-f[14902]: (Sparql buffer) Error in task 0 (file:///home/danny/Downloads) of the array-update: UNIQUE constraint failed: nie:DataObject.nie:url Jan 25 12:44:04 localhost tracker-miner-f[14902]: Could not execute sparql: UNIQUE constraint failed: nie:DataObject.nie:url It's currently 12:59, the /var/log/syslog was created at 12:44 and it's already 1.4G. $ ls -lhS /var/log/sys* -rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 5.8G Jan 25 10:33 /var/log/syslog.1 -rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 1.4G Jan 25 12:44 /var/log/syslog -rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 42M Jan 23 09:51 /var/log/syslog.3.gz -rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 40M Jan 24 09:46 /var/log/syslog.2.gz -rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 34M Jan 17 09:53 /var/log/syslog.7.gz -rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 26M Jan 18 10:03 /var/log/syslog.6.gz -rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 22M Jan 22 10:16 /var/log/syslog.4.gz -rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 7.3M Jan 19 09:56 /var/log/syslog.5.gz The message appears over 1.6 million times in the syslog file, and over 7.3 million times in the syslog.1 file: $ grep "has been reenqueued more than 2 times." /var/log/syslog | wc -l 1681093 $ grep "has been reenqueued more than 2 times." /var/log/syslog.1 | wc -l 7306358 I had only noticed it when my system started reporting that it is low on disk space. $ tracker --version Tracker 2.0.1 This program is free software and comes without any warranty. It is licensed under version 2 or later of the General Public License which can be viewed at: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt $ uname -a Linux danny-laptop-91 4.13.0-31-generic #34-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jan 19 16:34:46 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux $ lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 17.10 Release: 17.10 Codename: artful I'm -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/911981 Title: tracker-store uses 100% cpu and fills all the disk space in home partition To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tracker/+bug/911981/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
