Bug#706524: gvfsd-metadata process sometimes loads the CPU

[Mark Caglienzi]

Package: gvfs
Version: 1.12.3-4
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainers,
sometimes (unfortunately I haven't spotted the real cause) my laptop (a core i7
with 8GB of RAM) suffer high CPU loads, like 2.0 or 3.0 with only a browser, a
couple of terminals, liferea and pidgin.

htop says that very high amounts of CPU are taken by the gvfsd-metadata
process. Killing it and deleting ~/.local/share/gvfs-metadata/* solve the issue
without evidence of causing other problems (or at least evident to me).

As a quick and dirty workaround I setup a daily cronjob that do that
automatically, but it's definitely not a solution.

Kind regards,
Mark



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.5-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gvfs depends on:
ii  gvfs-common   1.12.3-4
ii  gvfs-daemons  1.12.3-4
ii  gvfs-libs     1.12.3-4
ii  libc6         2.13-38
ii  libdbus-1-3   1.6.8-1
ii  libglib2.0-0  2.33.12+really2.32.4-5
ii  libudev0      175-7.2

gvfs recommends no packages.

Versions of packages gvfs suggests:
ii  gvfs-backends  1.12.3-4

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