gvfsd-metadata freez and load IO

[Ramil Minnigaliev]

Sometimes in a week I see blinking IO-indicator on my PC. Look iotop and see that gvfsd-metadata write something on disk while jbd2 load IO up to 100%

Earlier I wait for some minutes than use killall gvfsd-metada. And now use killall immediately after see that my PC start work slowly and check iotop.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: gvfs 1.19.90-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-20.42-generic 3.13.7
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-20-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Fri Apr 4 17:33:39 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-01-20 (74 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Alpha amd64 (20140115)
SourcePackage: gvfs
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Anmar Oueja (anmar)]

I have this happen from time to time. Not sure why. I removed ~.loca/gvfsd-metadata content out of fear of corruption. Will see how it goes.

[vsespb (vsespb)]

Just happened in 12.04

[vsespb (vsespb)]

similar bug in Rhel looks fixed https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=561904

[van hanegen (4997865862-o)]

Happens from time to time with my both 14.04 installs. But it causes up to 15...18% CPU usage only.

[cergey pay (cpai)]

Just happened in 14.04; mint17shinnamon; in debian7.7 every 3-5 minutes

[Hard3D (xkebalx)]

Same problem on the same system. But htop shows me that my CPU load on ~7% in the bug time. However, it's really confusing!

[NoPH8 (i-noph8)]

 I have the same bug on kUbuntu 14.04 LTS (3.16.0-30-generic x86_64).
I haven't large CPU usage, but the unnecessarily process of writing data on my SSD it not good thing.