I think I may have the same issue in Trusty, possibly even worse: the gvfsd-smb process would randomly start and totally max out the CPU for no apparent reason - the thing is, not only I don't use samba at all, I have actually *purged* all samba packages from this system.
I really can't see how this process, which should be spawned by samba, should even start at all (let alone load the CPU to its max) when samba isn't even installed any more in my system. This being an old laptop which easily overheats, after getting nowhere trying to figure out why gvfsd-smb does this, I've resolved to remove the executable bit from gvfsd-smb and gvfsd-dnssd (which also starts for no apparent reason) and finally got rid of this big issue. But nonetheless I believe that such an annoying (and potentially harmful) long-standing bug should be properly investigated and fixed once and for all. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gvfs in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1409032 Title: gvfsd-smb: very high CPU utilisation Status in gvfs package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in samba package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in samba package in Fedora: Unknown Bug description: Example: I use Virtualbox and mount a .vdi on an SMB server. Using gvfsd-smb (browsing within Gnome to find the share), gvfsd-smb uses up to 50% CPU which slows down the entire system when accessing the network share. Mounting using sudo ($ sudo mount -t smbfs -o guest,nounix,noperm //server/share /media/share) so that cifs is used uses around 8% CPU. The difference is dramatic! If I didn't have sudo access my machine would grind to a halt when trying to use the remote share. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: gvfs-backends 1.12.1-0ubuntu1.2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-26.45~precise1-generic 3.11.10.12 Uname: Linux 3.11.0-26-generic i686 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.8 Architecture: i386 Date: Fri Jan 9 14:32:20 2015 MarkForUpload: True ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_GB:en TERM=xterm PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: gvfs UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2014-12-07 (33 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gvfs/+bug/1409032/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
