Hi, I opened system monitor and found out gvfsd-metadata was writing huge amount of data. I ended the process and disk stopped spinning.
How can I prevent it from running again?
Thanks in advance.
I may assume that this happens on openSUSE (but even that is not sure, we had at least two SLES users who got lost and landed here today). But please also tell your openSUSE version.
openSUSE 13.1…but all updates installed.
Well that is the gnome virtual file system
It seems to go off the deep end occasioanly
this is supposed to fix it when it does
rm -rf ~/.local/share/gvfs-metadata
Though that is old info and maybe they moved the file(s). Seems to be a lot of moving things in Gnome and KDE as of late.
thanks gogalthorp.
I have KDE and hapenning when the computer goes idle…
you might be on kde but a gnome app is eating resources, a quick google revealed a possible fault and fix
it looks like the metadata store is corrupted, a simple fix is to delete the old metadata store
run this from a terminal in your $HOME
cd $HOME
pkill gvfsd-metadata
rm -rf .local/share/gvfs-metadata
thanks I_A, nice to see you again.
I did gogalthorp’s fix killing it from the system monitor’s GUI first.
It’s OK now, yet didn’t leave the computer for a long time so that I could check if starting again.
your fix is good, it stops the load but sometimes the problem re-occurs.
I’ve noticed it starts even the computer is not idle.
Isn’t there a solution to prevent it from starting or it is a needed process…
On 2015-02-07 01:16, intzepatorii wrote:
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> your fix is good, it stops the load but sometimes the problem re-occurs.
> I’ve noticed it starts even the computer is not idle.
> Isn’t there a solution to prevent it from starting or it is a needed
> process…
It is needed by some gnome application that you are still running.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” (Minas Tirith))
can you detail please… after a little search I found out the settings for directory windows and desktop icon positions depend on it.
Icons on desktop wouldn’t be a problem as I don’t have any and I could cope with default directory windows
is it something else?
It’s very annoying to leave the computer running and when returning to see tons of unnecessary writes on disk.
If you run pure KDE it won’t be there. Only Gnome uses it it may be some gnome program has pulled it in which I have no idea what you run.
maybe disable it
Try this command:
sudo chmod -x /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfsd-metadata
It should disable gvfsd-metadata - the “-x” is making gvfsd-metadata non executable. Since i’m not sure of the side effects it might have on the system, if you want to reverse the command, just do:
sudo chmod +x /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfsd-metadata
Note that some program may throw errors when you start it. That is the one causing you your problem
that’s great gogal…
I was afraid I couldn’t reverse the command…
i’ll give it a try, thanks a lot.