Re: System not responsive any more when mouting smb shares with a huge amount of files

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam whitemice org>]

On Sun, 2012-09-30 at 13:31 +0200, Paul Wellner Bou wrote:
> I am using gvfs in Ubuntu 12.01, and I have problems mounting a windows 
> share (over VPN in this case) with more than 1500 files in it. The whole 
> gnome system is not responsive any more, it needs at least one second 
> until the action after a mouse click or key stroke starts. Also the 
> performance of the gnome-shell effects (clicking "Activitites") is affected.
> This happens mounting the share from command line with "gvfs-mount". 
> Then, the network traffic starts on constantly about 200 KiB/s. (I 
> assume that it would stop after all necessary data [file names? file 
> metadata?] are transmitted.)

So there is constant network traffic during the entire 'pause'?  Can you
run wireshark and look at the traffic?  I'd wager it is gathering
information about each-and-every file one-file-at-a-time.

> It seems that only the gnome desktop is affected, the other terminals 
> without X are working fine and I can jump to them without any delay. But 
> the gnome desktop is definitely not usable any more.
> My gvfs version:
> Architecture: amd64
> Version: 1.12.1-0ubuntu1.1
> Is this a new unknown issue? Should I open a bug regarding this?