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Hi
We've found that the combination of gnome (gnome-2.4) logins and NFS home directories supplied via the linux automounter is causing significant loading issues on the rpc.mountd daemon on the NFS server.
The cause of the problem is related to the directory entries in each users ~/.gnome/gnome-vfs/.trash_entry_cache file. When a user logs out this file is updated with all the currently mounted file systems (basically any home other users home dir as they are all mounted individually off the file server). The next time the user logs in, nautilis(?) attempts to remount all of these filesystems.
As our NFS server is serving a number of computer labs, when a lot of people log in at the same time, and their ~/.gnome/gnome-vfs/.trash_entry_cache file contains a lot of directories, the mountd daemon is experiencing a load hundreds of time in excess of what it would normally.
I've searched the lists and the gnome-vfs docs and can't see anyway to disable this directory mounting from occuring. Obviously we can sort the problem by either deleting these files or making them static (or unwritable by users) but I assume there is a more elegant solution. If there are some docs or posts relating to this I'd appreciate a point in the right direction.
Thanks Baz
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