Comment 24 for bug 517021

Fresh install Ubuntu 14.04, and actually I do had one disk (although not system disk) completely full a few days ago.

Today, without any apparent reason, disk I/O indicator LED not going off anymore (I don't know for how long) and system disk is an SSD. With a spinning disk this would've been serious thrashing. top told me ~20% CPU from gvfsd-metadata and iotop was reporting >1500K/s from that process.

I simply immediately shut down. After reboot: silence. Yet, after reading some posts, I rm wiped the ~/.local/share/gvfs-metadata folder. For now, that solved it.