I Rod, this could be http://monaco.sfbay.sun.com/detail.jsf?cr=2174138 more details here http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=585360
While the above indicated problem is severe in Sun Ray environment. It can also happen when /etc/mnttab is updated by anything. I have not experience severe slowness in a laptop or single user system at all though. Do send me a pointer the truss files, just in case it is a diferrent problem. Let me know what build are you on, please. /etc/release, mcs -p /usr/bin/nautilus Thanks, -Ghee Rod Evans wrote: > For some reason, starting some time last night, this process has been > going nuts on my desktop, taking significant cpu cycles: > > 2551 rie 84M 20M cpu1 40 0 0:02:23 25% gnome-settings-/2 > > I kill it and it restarts pretty much the same. > > In concert I have nautilus going nuts too: > > 2560 rie 212M 89M cpu2 59 0 0:01:23 13% nautilus/5 > > and this is thrashing my home directory server with stat's of my home > directory. > > I've tried pulling up my application control panel - where you start > FireFox/Thunderbird etc. but this just keeps flashing and won't let me > select anything, or drill down to a sub-menu. > > I even tried removing .gnome .gnome2 .gconf .gconfd .metacity. > > I have truss output of gnome-settings and nautilus if anyone is > interested, > but my primary desire is to get these processes to go to sleep. > > Any advise? >
