dbus-daemon & udisk-daemon utilize ~50% of processor power

Kardell · 2010-05-09 21:09:39

For about few months after some updates I experience dbus and udisk daemons are eating almost half of my processor power.
It is happening suddenly when I'm opening directory explorer from firefox to attach a file from my home directory for instance. Same thing is happening very randomly in different circumstances, but still somehow related with my filesystem. The only way is to reboot, because dbus restart does not help at all. This thing is happening about twice a day.

My main partitions are ext3, also I have 2 external hard drives running on USB.

daemon.log

May  9 22:47:13 skywalker ntfs-3g[3058]: Version 2010.3.6 external FUSE 28
May  9 22:47:13 skywalker ntfs-3g[3058]: Mounted /dev/sda1 (Read-Write, label "", NTFS 3.1)
May  9 22:47:13 skywalker ntfs-3g[3058]: Cmdline options: rw
May  9 22:47:13 skywalker ntfs-3g[3058]: Mount options: rw,silent,allow_other,nonempty,relatime,fsname=/dev/sda1,blkdev,blksize=4096
May  9 22:47:13 skywalker ntfs-3g[3058]: Ownership and permissions disabled, configuration type 1
May  9 22:47:13 skywalker ntfs-3g[3061]: Version 2010.3.6 external FUSE 28
May  9 22:47:13 skywalker ntfs-3g[3061]: Mounted /dev/sda2 (Read-Write, label "", NTFS 3.1)
May  9 22:47:13 skywalker ntfs-3g[3061]: Cmdline options: rw
May  9 22:47:13 skywalker ntfs-3g[3061]: Mount options: rw,silent,allow_other,nonempty,relatime,fsname=/dev/sda2,blkdev,blksize=4096
May  9 22:47:13 skywalker ntfs-3g[3061]: Ownership and permissions disabled, configuration type 1
May  9 22:47:13 skywalker ntfs-3g[3064]: Version 2010.3.6 external FUSE 28
May  9 22:47:13 skywalker ntfs-3g[3064]: Mounted /dev/sdb1 (Read-Write, label "", NTFS 3.1)
May  9 22:47:13 skywalker ntfs-3g[3064]: Cmdline options: rw
May  9 22:47:13 skywalker ntfs-3g[3064]: Mount options: rw,silent,allow_other,nonempty,relatime,fsname=/dev/sdb1,blkdev,blksize=4096
May  9 22:47:13 skywalker ntfs-3g[3064]: Ownership and permissions disabled, configuration type 1
May  9 22:47:14 skywalker ntfs-3g[3067]: Version 2010.3.6 external FUSE 28
May  9 22:47:14 skywalker ntfs-3g[3067]: Mounted /dev/sdb2 (Read-Write, label "", NTFS 3.1)

I don't know where is the flaw and how to detect it.

I figured it out.
The problem was with high defragmention of the ext3 partitions. Some says that ext3 is not defragmenting, but if this filesystem is not checked regurarly dbus and udisk is getting crazy. Partitions of my external hard drives were checked not on regular basis, some mounted 150 times other even 205 times without check.

Last edited by Kardell (2010-06-09 22:27:35)

Kardell · 2010-06-09 22:30:45

Actually this solution helped only for a while. This error still occurs.
I suspect my second external WD MyBook, which is auto resuming its operation, if unused.
When file explorer is entering the "Choose file..." option, this HD require ~5 sec to initiate, which perhaps is causing this issue.
Reboot again.

Kardell · 2010-06-24 21:10:36

I was blaming external USB hard drives, however same thing is happening when I want to get access to e.g. home directory from app like Gnome to save a .png file.
In the same time mounted encrypted Truecrypt partition via Truecrypt is giving me these errors without end until I kill truecrypt:

(truecrypt:13607): GVFS-RemoteVolumeMonitor-WARNING **: New owner :1.3493 for volume monitor org.gtk.Private.GduVolumeMonitor connected to the bus; seeding drives/volumes/mounts     
                                                                                                                                                                                      
(truecrypt:13607): GVFS-RemoteVolumeMonitor-WARNING **: invoking List() failed for type GProxyVolumeMonitorGdu: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Message did not receive a reply (timeout by message bus)                                                                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                                                                      
(truecrypt:13607): GVFS-RemoteVolumeMonitor-WARNING **: New owner :1.3495 for volume monitor org.gtk.Private.GduVolumeMonitor connected to the bus; seeding drives/volumes/mounts     
                                                                                                                                                                                      
(truecrypt:13607): GVFS-RemoteVolumeMonitor-WARNING **: invoking List() failed for type GProxyVolumeMonitorGdu: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Message did not receive a reply (timeout by message bus)                                                                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                                                                      
(truecrypt:13607): GVFS-RemoteVolumeMonitor-WARNING **: New owner :1.3497 for volume monitor org.gtk.Private.GduVolumeMonitor connected to the bus; seeding drives/volumes/mounts     
                                                                                                                                                                                      
(truecrypt:13607): GVFS-RemoteVolumeMonitor-WARNING **: invoking List() failed for type GProxyVolumeMonitorGdu: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Message did not receive a reply (timeout by message bus)                                                                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                                                                      
(truecrypt:13607): GVFS-RemoteVolumeMonitor-WARNING **: New owner :1.3499 for volume monitor org.gtk.Private.GduVolumeMonitor connected to the bus; seeding drives/volumes/mounts     
                                                                                                                                                                                      
(truecrypt:13607): GVFS-RemoteVolumeMonitor-WARNING **: invoking List() failed for type GProxyVolumeMonitorGdu: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Message did not receive a reply (timeout by message bus)                                                                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                                                                      
(truecrypt:13607): GVFS-RemoteVolumeMonitor-WARNING **: New owner :1.3501 for volume monitor org.gtk.Private.GduVolumeMonitor connected to the bus; seeding drives/volumes/mounts     
                                                                                                                                                                                      
(truecrypt:13607): GVFS-RemoteVolumeMonitor-WARNING **: invoking List() failed for type GProxyVolumeMonitorGdu: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Message did not receive a reply (timeout by message bus)                                                                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                                                                      
(truecrypt:13607): GVFS-RemoteVolumeMonitor-WARNING **: New owner :1.3503 for volume monitor org.gtk.Private.GduVolumeMonitor connected to the bus; seeding drives/volumes/mounts

Dbus & udisk behave same way. Arch is jammed by these two processes. Restart needed

mits · 2010-06-25 13:36:54

I had that problem too and I solved by uninstalling udisks (I use KDE+hal and no need for udisks).
Beware if you use gnome because udisks is dependencies of gnome (if I know right).
If you need udisks and you want to try another solution, try to remove udisks&restart and then reinstall it.

Kardell · 2010-06-25 20:59:11

Thank You mits.
I've followed your tip. Expecting an improvement.
Cheers

Arch Linux

#1 2010-05-09 21:09:39

dbus-daemon & udisk-daemon utilize ~50% of processor power

#2 2010-06-09 22:30:45

Re: dbus-daemon & udisk-daemon utilize ~50% of processor power

#3 2010-06-24 21:10:36

Re: dbus-daemon & udisk-daemon utilize ~50% of processor power

#4 2010-06-25 13:36:54

Re: dbus-daemon & udisk-daemon utilize ~50% of processor power

#5 2010-06-25 20:59:11

Re: dbus-daemon & udisk-daemon utilize ~50% of processor power

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