ok, but it's not just GNOME/nautilus behaviour. For one, I am experiencing problems with just about all applications that require (local) disk access. Furthermore, problems have also been reported with xfce/thunar and also with KDE. A bug for this issue has just been created for xfce/thunar: http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6185 On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 7:40 PM, Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 2010-01-27 at 13:23 -0500, Chuck Lever wrote: >> On 01/26/2010 06:21 PM, J. Bruce Fields wrote: >> > I wonder if nautilus (or some library it uses) likes to regularly >> > "statfs" all the filesystems it knows about? >> >> The NFS client seems to like to send these periodically, but I've never >> looked into why. It's probably triggered by some cache timeout, and >> gathers recent server file system information. > > No. It is entirely application driven. Furthermore, most of the statfs > data is uncached, since it should not be performance critical in any > sane application environment. > > IOW: I agree with Bruce that this is most likely GNOME or nautilus > triggering statfs calls. Indeed, when I do actually open a window on > some directory it also appears to display the free space. > > Trond > > > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
