Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: tracker
I've noticed over the past few weeks that trackerd appeared to be
utilising all the CPU cycles on one processor. Nice level was set to 19
so I wasn't too concerned. I've now run out of disk space. I tracked it
down to massive files being created by trackerd.
./.cache/tracker/
total 16771796
-rw--- 1 mgilroy mgilroy 1896448 2008-02-14 17:08 email-contents.db
-rw--- 1 mgilroy mgilroy 4908408 2008-02-21 08:50 email-index.db
-rw--- 1 mgilroy mgilroy 589852 2008-02-15 09:00 email-index.tmp.1
-rw--- 1 mgilroy mgilroy 589852 2008-02-18 08:25 email-index.tmp.2
-rw--- 1 mgilroy mgilroy 2162688 2008-02-14 17:09 email-meta.db
-rw--- 1 mgilroy mgilroy49758208 2008-02-21 08:50 file-contents.db
-rw--- 1 mgilroy mgilroy 2147483647 2008-02-21 08:50 file-index.db
-rw--- 1 mgilroy mgilroy14953400 2008-02-15 09:00 file-index.tmp.1
-rw--- 1 mgilroy mgilroy16225784 2008-02-18 08:25 file-index.tmp.2
-rw--- 1 mgilroy mgilroy 14917545984 2008-02-21 08:50 file-meta.db
-rw--- 1 mgilroy mgilroy 1368248 2008-02-21 08:50 file-update-index.db
Somehow it managed to completely fill the hard disk overnight when I was
out of the office and I'd freed up 12GB of space last night due to
running out of space yesterday. I'd initially assumed I just had filled
the disk.
The trackerd log appears to be limited in size and is copied below.
Possibly trackerd is just incapable of handling the VMware files? Either
way it should be limited in the size of file it can generate so as not
to fill the hard disk.
20 Feb 2008, 11:53:47:039 - WARNING: sql query COMMIT failed because disk I/O
error
20 Feb 2008, 11:53:47:041 - could not commit transaction
20 Feb 2008, 11:53:47:041 - WARNING: sql query ROLLBACK failed because cannot
rollback - no transaction is active
20 Feb 2008, 11:53:47:881 - ERROR: execution of prepared query SetMetadata
failed due to disk I/O error with return code 10
20 Feb 2008, 11:53:48:129 - WARNING: sql query COMMIT failed because cannot
commit - no transaction is active
20 Feb 2008, 11:53:48:129 - could not commit transaction
20 Feb 2008, 11:53:48:129 - WARNING: sql query ROLLBACK failed because cannot
rollback - no transaction is active
20 Feb 2008, 11:53:48:726 - ERROR: execution of prepared query CreateService
failed due to disk I/O error with return code 10
20 Feb 2008, 11:53:48:726 - ERROR: CreateService uri is
/home/mgilroy/vmware/vmware-server-distrib/lib/modules/binary/bld-2.6.5-7.147-bigsmp-SuSE9.1upd/objects
20 Feb 2008, 11:53:48:726 - ERROR: could not get file id for
/home/mgilroy/vmware/vmware-server-distrib/lib/modules/binary/bld-2.6.5-7.147-bigsmp-SuSE9.1upd/objects
- unable to continue indexing this file
20 Feb 2008, 11:53:48:728 - ERROR: execution of prepared query CreateService
failed due to database or disk is full with return code 13
20 Feb 2008, 11:53:48:728 - ERROR: CreateService uri is
/home/mgilroy/vmware/vmware-server-distrib/lib/modules/binary/bld-2.6.5-7.147-bigsmp-SuSE9.1upd/objects
20 Feb 2008, 11:53:48:728 - ERROR: could not get file id for
/home/mgilroy/vmware/vmware-server-distrib/lib/modules/binary/bld-2.6.5-7.147-bigsmp-SuSE9.1upd/objects
- unable to continue indexing this file
20 Feb 2008, 11:53:48:730 - ERROR: execution of prepared query CreateService
failed due to database or disk is full with return code 13
20 Feb 2008, 11:53:48:730 - ERROR: CreateService uri is
/home/mgilroy/vmware/vmware-server-distrib/lib/modules/binary/bld-2.6.5-7.147-bigsmp-SuSE9.1upd/objects
20 Feb 2008, 11:53:48:730 - ERROR: could not get file id for
/home/mgilroy/vmware/vmware-server-distrib/lib/modules/binary/bld-2.6.5-7.147-bigsmp-SuSE9.1upd/objects
- unable to continue indexing this file
20 Feb 2008, 11:53:48:732 - ERROR: execution of prepared query CreateService
failed due to database or disk is full with return code 13
20 Feb 2008, 11:53:48:732 - ERROR: CreateService uri is
/home/mgilroy/vmware/vmware-server-distrib/lib/modules/binary/bld-2.6.5-7.147-bigsmp-SuSE9.1upd/objects
20 Feb 2008, 11:53:48:732 - ERROR: could not get file id for
/home/mgilroy/vmware/vmware-server-distrib/lib/modules/binary/bld-2.6.5-7.147-bigsmp-SuSE9.1upd/objects
- unable to continue indexing this file
20 Feb 2008, 11:53:48:734 - ERROR: execution of prepared query CreateService
failed due to database or disk is full with return code 13
20 Feb 2008, 11:53:48:734 - ERROR: CreateService uri is
/home/mgilroy/vmware/vmware-server-distrib/lib/modules/binary/bld-2.6.5-7.147-bigsmp-SuSE9.1upd/objects
20 Feb 2008, 11:53:48:734 - ERROR: could not get file id for
/home/mgilroy/vmware/vmware-server-distrib/lib/modules/binary/bld-2.6.5-7.147-bigsmp-SuSE9.1upd/objects
- unable to continue indexing this file
20 Feb 2008, 11:53:48:735 - ERROR: execution of prepared query CreateService
failed due to database or disk is full with return code 13
20 Feb 2008, 11:53:48:735 - ER
