On Thursday, February 11, 2021 12:12:45 PM Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: > On 11.02.2021 20:58, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > On my Wheezy system, I've noticed that for the past 2 or 3 days, gvfsd- > > metadata has been the top running task when I check with top.
> It sure looks like a bug of some sort. "gvfsd-metadata" process in "top" > on my system (Buster) is always idle: > 1519 xxxx 20 0 164688 5832 5284 S 0,0 0,0 0:00.09 > gvfsd-metadata > Maybe this will help. [1] Sounds reasonable enough to try. > As for firefox I remember it was quite a resource hog a few years ago, > but recent enough versions of it consumes so much less memory and CPU. Thanks! I'll keep watching, but it seems that simply deleting the gvfsd- metadata directory also killed the task, and it has not reappeared (so far). > [1] > https://iamparv.wordpress.com/2013/04/12/solved-ubuntu-gvfsd-metadata-cpu-h > igh-usage-100/
