I confirm on my side that the gsetting suggestion from Ted Gould (comment #8) is working for a user with his homedir over NFS. I have now put it in my default Ubuntu deployment strategy.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of DX Packages, which is subscribed to indicator-appmenu in Ubuntu. Matching subscriptions: dx-packages https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/998759 Title: hud-service frequently tries to accesses non existing files causing high disk/network activity Status in The Application Menu: Confirmed Status in System Load Indicator: Confirmed Status in “indicator-appmenu” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: /usr/lib/indicator-appmenu/hud-service is frequently calling access() for the following three files: access("<home>/.cache/indicator-appmenu/hud-usage-log.sqlite-journal", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) access("<home>/.cache/indicator-appmenu/hud-usage-log.sqlite-wal", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) access("/usr/share/indicator-appmenu/hud/app-info/multiload.hud-app-info", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) which apparently do not exist (excerpt from strace log, <home> is users home directory). For NFS mounted homes this causes a constant network traffic of ~300kB/s down and ~50kB/s up in idle state. On slower machines this causes a more than noticable CPU load (with and without NFS mounted homes). ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: indicator-appmenu 0.3.97-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-24.37-generic 3.2.14 Uname: Linux 3.2.0-24-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu7 Architecture: amd64 Date: Sun May 13 15:36:15 2012 ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/indicator-appmenu/hud-service InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012) SourcePackage: indicator-appmenu UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-04-28 (15 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/indicator-appmenu/+bug/998759/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dx-packages Post to : dx-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dx-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
