My guess is that it’s reindexing, and will settle down when done. Give it a day, and if it’s still going, then worry.
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I will give it some time then, thank you. Is there something I can do in case it doesn't come back to normal?
I had this once on Leap 42.x series. it would run constantly and never stop. And almost 100% cpu. The tracker-miner logs showed 2 files it was tripping up on. So check its logging. Other than deleting my troubled data I had to use tracker commands and stop or restart the miner to get cpu to normal. I don't know if it was a bug, a few files with some sort of virus, or glitch. But one file i assume was a problem file, I had ripped my Little Britain collection. One chapter in menu has a "Do you want to break your DVD player" when you click it and say Yes, it would shutdown the player and no buttons worked not even the power button. Had to unplug from wall to reset it. Nice Prank from them, however whatever binary info was in that DVD fike was causing trouble in tracker miner.
Just checked the logs, and they have thousands of this error: Failed to start tracker-miner-fs-3.service - Tracker file system data miner.
But I can't find more info about what's happening
Its been 6 years since I tackled this so i forget. but from command prompt you can start by checking status of tracker miner service then trying stop /start. There are also tracker miner commands to pause, refresh cache, monitor etc. so you would have to lookup what those are. it could even be a permission issue, or version issue
Just going off how things are setup in the KDE spin, the tracker is what allows you to search and find files on the machine. Disabling it would most likely make it tough to find files. But I'm not familiar with gnome just to be clear. I'd say report it and hopefully someone else can provide better detail.