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ethernode

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Registered: 2006-11-09

Posts: 24

Continuous smb network traffic on gnome3.6 when mounted with nautilus

Hi,

I understand this might be more of a gvfs issue, but i noticed a persistent, continuous samba network traffic; not too big (40D 15U kB/s), yet not necessary as i dont think that any indexing process is trying to browse the whole samba share (a synology NAS).

$ netstat -pant | grep 445
tcp        0      0 192.168.1.98:33613      192.168.1.19:445        ESTABLISHED 2470/gvfsd-smb      

wireshark shows up a lot of SMB going on, that look like this sequence :
* QUERY_FS_INFO (twice, 2 different types)
* QUERY_PATH_INFO
* FIND_FIRST2 on the root mount path
* and again, again, etc...

In short i guess that gvfsd-smb is continuously polling (every 50 ms) the root mount directory. That's a bit too much, right

As for workarounds, only unmounting the samba share makes it disappear.

Any hint ?

Versions are:

local/gvfs 1.14.2-1
local/gvfs-smb 1.14.2-1
    SMB/CIFS (Windows client) backend for gvfs

Henry78

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From: Vienna

Registered: 2012-01-23

Posts: 65

Re: Continuous smb network traffic on gnome3.6 when mounted with nautilus

Got the same issue, here it also occupies a CPU core.

As my Google serches didn't reveal anything helpful: Did you gain any insight?

ethernode

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Registered: 2006-11-09

Posts: 24

Re: Continuous smb network traffic on gnome3.6 when mounted with nautilus

No, it doesn't change. I suspect some SMB protocol version conflict between the two systems.

hogehoge

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Registered: 2013-05-22

Posts: 12

Re: Continuous smb network traffic on gnome3.6 when mounted with nautilus

I have same problem with 1.16.3-2
Buffering increased after version-up
and Sometimes impossible to open file ( regardless size )

It was already reported as gvfs-smb bug in Ubuntu forum
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour … ug/1075923

But, It seems not assinged yet

Last edited by hogehoge (2013-07-06 01:33:11)

ethernode

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Registered: 2006-11-09

Posts: 24

Re: Continuous smb network traffic on gnome3.6 when mounted with nautilus

On an up-to date Archlinux, with an up-to-date Synology (DSM 5 -- i strongly suspect this is related to the Synology using a more recent smbd -- apparently version 3.6.9), i don't see the issue anymore.