Can I temporarily disable tracker-store and tracker-extract and tracker-miner to help save battery on my laptop?

Question

I am really disappointed in my battery life on Kubuntu and I notice when I monitor htop, that these systemd daemons really are constantly eating cpu in the background.

I don't know what they do, but considering how constant they are, I wonder if I could disable them while using my battery so I can save that instead. When Plugged in, they can do what they need to do otherwise.

How can I do this?

I am on kubuntu 21.04. I do not have such a process running. I thought tracker store was the gnome file indexer. MAybe disabling file indexing would help. — Bruni, Jun 10 '21 at 07:11
I am on kubuntu; That might be why its there. In any case, tracker reset --hard seemed to have fixed things. — Jannies - They do it for free, Jun 10 '21 at 07:13

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited Aug 25 '22 at 15:14

Try following setting, which apparently are not exposed in the user interface:

gsettings set org.freedesktop.Tracker.Miner.Files index-on-battery false

To reset to default, run

gsettings reset org.freedesktop.Tracker.Miner.Files index-on-battery

Stopping the miner also stops tracker-store and tracker-extract (leaves them without a job).

On Newer Versions of Gnome.Tracker, the schema changed slightly, it's now Tracker3 instead of Tracker, so org.freedesktop.Tracker.Miner.Files becomes org.freedesktop.Tracker3.Miner.Files. The rest of the instructions are the same and the key is unchanged.

@gidoBOSSftw5731 Many thanks for this update! – vanadium Aug 25 '22 at 15:16 — vanadium, Aug 25 '22 at 15:16

Can I temporarily disable tracker-store and tracker-extract and tracker-miner to help save battery on my laptop?

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