gvfsd-smb using as much CPU as is available

[Matthew Ames]

Binary package hint: gvfs

GVFS is using a lot of system resources. According to top:
  PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
25625 matthew 20 0 102m 4008 3112 R 49 0.1 3:19.32 gvfsd-smb
25631 matthew 20 0 102m 4008 3112 R 49 0.1 3:19.06 gvfsd-smb
25627 matthew 20 0 102m 4012 3112 R 48 0.1 3:11.93 gvfsd-smb
25629 matthew 20 0 102m 4008 3112 R 48 0.1 3:14.82 gvfsd-smb

This is on a two core box, so as you can see, it is trying to use up all the CPU it can get its hands on. Despite not affecting the performance of the box, it seems to give up CPU time quite nicely, it is a little disconcerting.

Matthew.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: gvfs-backends 1.6.3-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-19.28-generic 2.6.35.3
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-19-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Sep 7 12:18:58 2010
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfsd-smb
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100429)
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=en_GB.utf8
SourcePackage: gvfs

[Matthew Ames (supermatt)]

I have restarted my box since noticing this error, now I cannot connect to any samba shares with gvfs... It just sits on 100% CPU. If I kill the process I get:

Could not display "smb://server/share/".
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