[Tracker] tracker-miner-apps is frozen and killing my CPU

[Alfredo Hernández <aldomann designs gmail com>]

Hi all,

I've recently noticed in my Arch Linux machine that tracker-miner-apps makes a relatively big CPU usage. Digging into the terminal and the documentation I made some tests with the terminal and tracker daemon consistently tells me that the Applications miner is stuck at 69%.

A few questions:

• Why is this happening and how can it be solved?
• What's the exact purpose of this specific miner?
• Can a specific tracker be disabled? How would this affect the GNOME Shell experience?
  

Thanks in advance,
Alfredo