Gvfs-smb eats up a lot of CPU after a update

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#1

Uses 20 to 60% of a dual core for what seems like several minutes.

I got tired of this behavior and traced the problem back to samba (of course).

I am not a user of samba, I have other methods so the answer for me was to remove two samba packages.

samba-common
and
samba-common-bin

The gvfs-smb process is no longer loaded, for me, problem solved.

And I should add that I have tried this only once, needs some more verification.

#2

Hi @anon42388993,

could you not just disable Samba?. :smiley:

#3

I would think you could, but if you don’t use it, why not just remove it. Are you running 16o4 and not seeing this cpu usage?

Edit
I should add I have removed samba from 3 other installs and problem solved on all.

A process must need to be killed , running at 100%
#4

After todays updates gvfs-smb is back even though samba is still removed. So this was not the answer.

#5

I have located the executable starting the process.

/usr/lib/gvfs/gvfsd-smb-browse

#6