Re: The more mounts I add, the slower Nautilus becomes.

["Chris Fanning" <christopher fanning gmail com>]

Hi,

> The desktop box is diskless booting with live-initramfs.
> for some reason, /home isn't present in /etc/mtab (although it is in
> /proc/mounts)
>
> Reading somwhere these days I saw something about nautilus and mtab...

I fixed my mtab problem and now the nfs mount /home shows ok.
And it also seems my nautilus problems have gone too! :)
I'm very sorry about the fuss. :(

Thankyou for your time Christian.
Chris.


On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 10:35 PM, Chris Fanning
<christopher fanning gmail com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 3:49 PM, Christian Neumair <cneumair gnome org> wrote:
>> Am Dienstag, den 17.06.2008, 09:09 +0200 schrieb Chris Fanning:
>>> /home/user/shares/mount1
>>> /home/user/shares/mount2
>>> /home/user/shares/remote_server/mount3
>>>
>>> > Listing "shares" already causes network traffic for all
>>> mounts. Just
>>> > mount a bunch of shares, launch a network sniffer like wireshark and
>>> > enter "ls" in the "shares" directory.
>>> >
>>> not so here. 'ls' isn't creating network traffic at the 'shares'
>>> directory or at the 'remote_server' directory, but only once I
>>> actually 'cd' into the mountpoint.
>>
>> How are you mounting these shares exactly, and what SMB clients/servers
>> do you use? Maybe we will be able to reconstruct your issue if you fully
>> specify your environment.
>>
> sure. I hope I can be of help.
>
> the desktop is ubuntu 7.10, using pam-scripts we create smb.cred and
> run through a text file ~/.shares that reads server:share
> server:share, etc
> mount -t cifs //$server/$share $mountpoint -o
> iocharset=utf8,credentials=$CRED_DIR/smb.cred
>
> both samba servers are debian etch's.
>
> The desktop box is diskless booting with live-initramfs. the root
> filesystem is a union of ram and nfs. /home is mounted onto that from
> another nfs server.
> / (union de nfs and ram)
> /home (nfs mount)
> /home/user/share/mount1 (cifs mount).
>
> for some reason, /home isn't present in /etc/mtab (although it is in
> /proc/mounts)
>
> Reading somwhere these days I saw something about nautilus and mtab,
> so thinking this might be the problem I have also tested mounting the
> shares on /tmp (because /tmp is present in mtab).
>
> /tmp/user/shares/mount1
> /tmp/user/shares/mount2
> /tmp/user/shares/remote_server/mount3
>
> So, there are some cifs mounts on the /tmp directory and _no_ cifs
> mounts on my home directory  (no softlinks to the shares on /tmp
> either) . Now when I open nautilus at my home, I can see network
> traffic to the samba servers!! That has taken me by suprise. It seems
> Nautilus is doing something like
> # ls -laR /
>
> After getting correct results with pcmanfs, I've also tried thunar. No
> problem there either.
>
> What's the next step?
>
> Cheers.
> Chris.
>
>> best regards,
>>  Christian Neumair
>>
>> --
>> Christian Neumair <cneumair gnome org>
>>
>>
>