Comment 4 for bug 716280

I am running 16-04.02 and have not seen the problem again.

On Thu, Mar 8, 2018 at 9:25 AM, Daniel Llewellyn <email address hidden> wrote:

> This is a really old bug and the versions of Ubuntu it references are
> out of support now. Can you verify whether this is still a problem on
> Xenial (16.04) or Artful (17.10) and reset the bug to "confirmed" if you
> can recreate the issue.
>
> ** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu)
> Status: Confirmed => Incomplete
>
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> Title:
> gvfsd-metadata process pegs CPU while nautilus waits
>
> Status in nautilus package in Ubuntu:
> Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: nautilus
>
> I have been getting delays of 30-60 seconds when nautilus copies data
> on an NTFS filesystem in a 1.5 TB My Book external USB disk from
> Western Digital. I was able to see the process that has 100% of the
> CPU and causes spinners in my Nautilus Windows until it finishes. It
> is gvfsd-metadata, for which I have no man page.
>
> Today, I closed an earlier bug thinking that the problem had resolved
> itself as I had nominal functionality with nautilus then. I noticed
> that the problem returned and looked at running processes with top (1)
> to see what process appeared and what it was using when it ran.
>
> I don't know what gvfsd-metadata does or how important it is, but it
> seems to be the hog process. As soon as it exits I get the FM back. It
> appears whenever I move (drag) files from one dir to another. Another
> bug where I had long delays moving a 1.0 GB dir from the boot drive to
> this external drive, may be the same problem.
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
> Package: nautilus 1:2.32.0-0ubuntu1.3
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-25.44-generic 2.6.35.10
> Uname: Linux 2.6.35-25-generic i686
> Architecture: i386
> Date: Wed Feb 9 23:09:42 2011
> ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/nautilus
> ProcEnviron:
> LANG=en_US.utf8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> SourcePackage: nautilus
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