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

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On mån, 2012-10-01 at 17:12 +0200, Paul Wellner Bou wrote:
> On 10/01/2012 03:34 PM, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> May be. I have to set up a test environment as for now I splitted up the 
> directory in several sub directories to be able to work with this share. 
> An interesting detail may be that the traffic is constantly about 200 
> KiB/s, but on each screen refresh, the traffic is lower (about 100 KiB/s 
> -- this is what is visible in the tooltip information every time it 
> refreshes).
> 
> This problem should be reproducable with a simple test scenario, so I 
> will try when I find the time for it.
> 
> By the way, the > 1000 files are .epub files... not sure if the type of 
> the files my be a reason, because I don't know which application is 
> requesting the information.

Maybe something is indexing the files on the mount. Does any other
process seem to be constantly running?