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unity-settings-daemon package

  1. Bug #1302095
  2. Comment #2

Comment 2 for bug 1302095

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thank you for your bug report, I can't confirm that from stracing the binary here. Does it happen after login for you?

The directories listed suggest that something is putting a monitor on the XDG_DATA_DIRS directories, it's likely some gio API watching for new .desktop/applications to be installed.

Note that all those "things poll every 4 seconds on the same paths" issues are because inotify limitations, the kernel doesn't allow monitoring a non existant directory (e.g to get an event if the directory gets created and only start monitoring the content then). If we really want to stop having such problems we should look at fixing/improving the kernel