Since last update (mid January), tracker can't correctly complete file indexing. If I follow tracker-extract progress I can see that it reaches about 30%, then it occupies all available memory (swap and RAM), slowing down all computer activiries, and then it stops. I tried several times to reset tracker database and restart indexing, but it fails everytime, also after removing lots of file from my home directory.
Created attachment 1058282 [details] Screenshot of memory usage
I am having the same issue on Fedora 22 with tracker 1.4.0. After a reset of the tracker database, tracker is unable to finish indexing because all my memory are consumed. After 17 minutes of uptime - the computer is unusable.
Upstream bug report: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=748608
In my case, librsvg is the root cause for the memory leak. For me, adding *.svg to the global ignore list for tracker is a valid workaround The upstream bugreport had identified a memory leak in librsvg.