On 2025-01-06 11.02, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
On Mon, Jan 6, 2025 at 1:00 PM Will McDonald <wmcdonald@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mon, 6 Jan 2025 at 17:50, Jeffrey Walton <noloader@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mon, Jan 6, 2025 at 12:36 PM Tim Evans <tkevans@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Have noticed very heavy sluggishness in my F-41 system response over the
past week or so. Totally idle system showing steady 1.0+ system load
average; lightly used system showing 2.0+. Some apps' response delayed
30 seconds or longer.
Top shows tracker-miner-fs-3 steady at 18-35% CPU
I would be interested to learn about how the malware got on your
system. It sounds like it managed to install itself with root
privileges.
Do you recall what you were doing around the time it showed up or you
experienced the slow down?
You might want to slow down before jumping to the 'malware' conclusion.
My immediate thought was 'oh, that doesn't sound good', too but if you search for that process name...
https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=tracker-miner-fs-3&atb=v443-1&ia=web
Or check your own system, this looks like it's a completely legitimate package. Whether it's something you want/need or not is another matter but we shouldn't jump to conclusions without some base evidence...
[wmcdonald@fedora ~ ]$ ps -ef | grep [t]racker
wmcdona+ 3673 2022 0 Jan02 ? 00:00:04 /usr/libexec/tracker-miner-fs-3
[wmcdonald@fedora ~ ]$ rpm -qf /usr/libexec/tracker-miner-fs-3
tracker-miners-3.7.4-2.fc41.x86_64
[wmcdonald@fedora ~ ]$ rpm -qi `rpm -qf /usr/libexec/tracker-miner-fs-3`
Name : tracker-miners
Version : 3.7.4
Release : 2.fc41
Architecture: x86_64
Install Date: Thu 02 Jan 2025 14:35:31 GMT
Group : Unspecified
Size : 4559227
License : GPL-2.0-or-later AND LGPL-2.1-or-later
Signature : RSA/SHA256, Thu 12 Dec 2024 19:10:53 GMT, Key ID d0622462e99d6ad1
Source RPM : tracker-miners-3.7.4-2.fc41.src.rpm
Build Date : Thu 12 Dec 2024 15:47:19 GMT
Build Host : buildvm-x86-14.iad2.fedoraproject.org
Packager : Fedora Project
Vendor : Fedora Project
URL : https://gnome.pages.gitlab.gnome.org/tracker/
Bug URL : https://bugz.fedoraproject.org/tracker-miners
Summary : Tracker miners and metadata extractors
Description :
Tracker is a powerful desktop-neutral first class object database,
tag/metadata database and search tool.
This package contains various miners and metadata extractors for tracker.
Oh, it sounded like one of those cryptocurrency miners (to me).
What a dumb name for a legitimate package...
Jeff
It is a logical name for what it does. It tracks data on your system by
mining the metadata that it can process. It is part of the process of
trying to be helpful.
I have found it to be an issue and a "tool" that I don't use. I removed
it as soon as I found that what it was doing and the resources that it
was taking up. No loss for my processes.
So, if you are not using it's features, remove it, if you can. I use
KDE which may allow me to remove it.
Robin
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