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

[Olaf Frączyk <olaf cbk poznan pl>]

On Wed, 2008-06-18 at 11:32 +0200, Chris Fanning wrote:
> 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. :(

Hmm, could you tell what happened?

I would like to know the exact cause of this strange nautilus behaviour.

Regards,

Olaf

> 
> 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>
> >>
> >>
> >
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