What is /usr/lib/tracker?

Question

I ran ps -aux and I see like 4 of these

name      1696  0.0  0.3 337052 11892 tty2     SNl+ 06:46   0:00 /usr/lib/tracker
name      1698  0.3  0.4 502776 19272 tty2     SNl+ 06:46   0:24 /usr/lib/tracker
name      1704  0.0  0.3 302752 12000 tty2     SNl+ 06:46   0:00 /usr/lib/tracker
name      1705  0.0  1.5 1326320 61316 tty2    SNl+ 06:46   0:02 /usr/lib/tracker

Anyone got any information on what this is? I searched the path on google and found 0 matching results. I also searched here with the same results.

Solution 1

Found it on the DuckDuckGo search engine. Tracker is a search engine, search tool, and metadata storage system. It provides an indexer, tag database, extensible metadata database, and a database for first class objects.

For more info, read the Ubuntu Wiki page here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Tracker

Or you can check out the Gnome project page here: https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Tracker

Solution 2

I don't have this folder on my system, it could be something you installed.

apt search tracker tell us tracker is

metadata database, indexer and search tool

Ubuntu wiki discribes tracker in simple terms

In layman's terms, MetaTracker (commonly referred to as Tracker) is a desktop search application which allows you to quickly search your

documents, photos, music, and other files. The advantage of Tracker over the default search feature in Ubuntu (Nautilus -> Search for files...) is that results are returned much more quickly and all of the metadata (such as title, artist, track, album, composer, date, etc.) of the file is included in the search. Tracker also very small and efficient, consuming only abou 6 MB of RAM when indexing, and ~3 MB when idle.

Comments

[SuperSluether]

That's odd, my system doesn't even have that directory. What happens when you run /usr/lib/track in a terminal?

[Pepe]

It turns out that my terminal was to too small to display the full text. /usr/lib/tracker/ is the full name. My apologies