tracker-store and tracker-miner terrorizing CPU

[excessive]

On our Centos7 (GNOME) workstations we have the processes tracker-store and tracker-miner messing with the CPU load. I found a way to to change some settings of it via the tracker-preferences package, but I'm looking for more radical solution of turning that off completely, ideally during kickstart install of the machines. What would be the best way to achieve that?

[avij]

Try uninstalling the tracker package? For kickstart, you can specify -tracker to exclude the package. Hopefully uninstalling the package won't try to uninstall tons of other dependant packages as well, I haven't checked.

[excessive]

For the sake of the test I did yum remove tracker. This is what is gone.

Removing:
tracker x86_64 1.10.5-4.el7 @anaconda 5.6 M
Removing for dependencies:
evince-nautilus x86_64 3.22.1-5.el7 @anaconda 19 k
gnome-boxes x86_64 3.22.4-4.el7 @anaconda 5.0 M
gnome-classic-session noarch 3.22.2-10.el7 @anaconda 196 k
grilo-plugins x86_64 0.3.4-1.el7 @anaconda 1.4 M
nautilus x86_64 3.22.3-3.el7 @anaconda 15 M
totem x86_64 1:3.22.1-1.el7 @anaconda 6.3 M
totem-nautilus x86_64 1:3.22.1-1.el7 @anaconda 36 k

[lightman47]

You mention 'radical' - In my weekly backup scripts is this line which pretty much kills it for me

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rm /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.freedesktop.Tracker1.*

If an update replaces the files, they're gone again the following week.

[excessive]

Alright.

Removing the tracker package isn't proper solution because it removes way too many important dependancies.