Comment 23 for bug 1409032

I have found this bug on several computers running Ubuntu 16.04 and Raspberry Pi 2s and a 3 running Ubuntu MATE 16.04. With a quad core CPU, gvsfd-smb-browse seems to consume 100% of one of the cores.

On a Dell XPS13 laptop, this causes the cooling fan to come on. On the Raspberry Pi 2 and 3, it uses up excessive CPU resources preventing some processor-intensive apps from running properly and contributing to the CPU temperature rise.

The solution that I have used is to remove the execute permission from the file as follows - execute from the terminal: sudo chmod 744 /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfsd-smb-browse

This seems to prevent the rogue file from running and appears to have no detrimental affect on the running of the operating systems.

Perhaps we can have a permanent solution implemented in the next Xenial software upgrade.