After not be satisfied with any of the above workarounds to the problem I decided to take a look at the problem and see if I could come up with a "cleaner" workaround or fix.
I found that this problem occurs in Ubuntu 16.04 with Unity Gnome 3.18 GnomeShell Gnome 3.20, Budgie Gnome 3.18 and Fedora 24 Beta. After some troubleshooting I found the following solution that does not require changing executable permissions or removing packages: 1- Make a backup copy of the smb.conf file in /etc/samba. 2- Edit the /etc/samba/smb.conf file using your favorite editor and add the following line under the "[global]" statement: name resolve order = wins lmhosts bcast The file should look like this: [global] name resolve order = wins lmhosts bcast 3- Save the file and reboot. The problem should be fixed and you should notice that the "Network" Icon and label shows up much quicker in your file browser than before and the 100% CPU usage is gone. Hope this helps. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gvfs in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1409032 Title: gvfsd-smb: very high CPU utilisation Status in gvfs package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in samba package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in samba package in Fedora: Unknown Bug description: Example: I use Virtualbox and mount a .vdi on an SMB server. Using gvfsd-smb (browsing within Gnome to find the share), gvfsd-smb uses up to 50% CPU which slows down the entire system when accessing the network share. Mounting using sudo ($ sudo mount -t smbfs -o guest,nounix,noperm //server/share /media/share) so that cifs is used uses around 8% CPU. The difference is dramatic! If I didn't have sudo access my machine would grind to a halt when trying to use the remote share. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: gvfs-backends 1.12.1-0ubuntu1.2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-26.45~precise1-generic 3.11.10.12 Uname: Linux 3.11.0-26-generic i686 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.8 Architecture: i386 Date: Fri Jan 9 14:32:20 2015 MarkForUpload: True ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_GB:en TERM=xterm PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: gvfs UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2014-12-07 (33 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gvfs/+bug/1409032/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
