Same here as with with Mr. rattskjelke above: I never had any reason to notice gvfsd-smb-browse until I upgraded to 16.04 and noticed my laptop's fans spinning and this stupid process at the top of the list.
Searching with google or DDG for "gvfsd-smb-browse high CPU" reveals that this problem has appeared in the past ( way back in 2010!) and it is not clear what resolved it or whether the user simply became frustrated and stopped using samba or even all of Ubuntu. At first I tried to uninstall the package that contains it (gvfs- backends) but that would probably break software-center, and other things i want: ------------------------------------------------------- sudo apt-get remove gvfs-backends . . . The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: oneconf oneconf-common python-cups python-debtagshw python-oneconf python-piston-mini-client python-xapian python3-oneconf python3-piston-mini-client software-center-aptdaemon-plugins ------------------------------------------------------- I do not use samba (It's just another half-arsed Microsoft network protocol, designed to not work right on other platforms to compel you to use Windows) or care about it so I did the following: ------------------------------------------------------- sudo mv /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfsd-smb-browse /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfsd-smb-browse.disabled ------------------------------------------------------- -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gvfs in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1409032 Title: gvfsd-smb: very high CPU utilisation To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gvfs/+bug/1409032/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
