Today I reflashed my Librem 5 Evergreen with a "beta" (unofficial status I think) of the upcoming Byzantium release. I noticed very quickly that my phone was getting pretty warm (44 °C / 111 °F according to the sensors). With that, I went looking to see what might be causing the mischief.
And guess what? I was able to because this phone is running pure linux!
A quick look at htop and ps (again, because I can), and I found that a
service named tracker-store was consistently consuming between about 60% and
100% of one of my cores. I looked it up. It turns out that the tracker utils
are a set of programs that exist to index the filesystem and metadata (which to
be honest I don't want, but it's part of gnome I believe).
A little digging and I happened upon this StackExchange question that said to run the following to fix things.
tracker reset --hard
Sure enough, that did the trick! According to powertop (because yet again,
I can) my CPU is consuming about 400-800 mW during idle at around 35-37 °C
/ 97-99 °F.
Thanks Purism!
Written on: 2021-07-20 17:45:36 -0600
Last edited: 2025-02-25 19:18:47 UTC
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