Bug 600592 - high cpu usage of gvfs-gdu-volume-monitor over than 90%
Summary: high cpu usage of gvfs-gdu-volume-monitor over than 90%
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: gvfs
Version: 16
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Tomáš Bžatek
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2010-06-05 06:31 UTC by mahdi
Modified: 2015-03-03 22:49 UTC (History)
8 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2013-02-14 00:36:57 UTC
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Stack trace from CPU-eating process (9.64 KB, text/plain)
2010-11-23 09:50 UTC, Paul Howarth
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Description mahdi 2010-06-05 06:31:29 UTC
Description of problem:high cpu usage of gvfs-gdu-volume-monitor over than 20%.
in my laptop msi-gx623 this process eat over than 20% of cpu time.and sometime it is go to eat 90% of cpu time and cause system to be crashed.

it is my cpu usage of gvfs-gdu-volume process:

18315 mahdi     20   0 66436  26m 2752 R 95.9  0.7  10:44.27 gvfs-gdu-volume 
  
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Comment 1 Paul Howarth 2010-11-16 09:23:06 UTC
I see this on F14 too, and with one instance per logged-in user, this is a real CPU hog.

Tasks: 645 total,   4 running, 641 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s): 41.3%us,  3.6%sy,  0.0%ni, 54.7%id,  0.4%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Mem:  12328580k total, 10130464k used,  2198116k free,   562460k buffers
Swap:  8388600k total,   772512k used,  7616088k free,  1563356k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND                                                         
 3002 helen     20   0  365m 216m 2148 R 99.8  1.8 347:45.69 gvfs-gdu-volume                                                 
 4767 paul      20   0  365m 214m 1972 R 99.8  1.8 353:51.09 gvfs-gdu-volume                                                 
31796 bingning  20   0  366m 216m 2144 R 99.8  1.8 347:46.67 gvfs-gdu-volume                                                 
 5473 qemu      20   0 1315m 975m 1456 S 22.7  8.1   1105:36 qemu-kvm                                                        
 7956 paul      20   0 1432m 345m  17m S 20.8  2.9 521:43.40 firefox                                                         
 5498 qemu      20   0 3377m 2.5g 1516 S 17.1 21.5   1799:26 qemu-kvm                                                        
 4395 root      20   0  188m  31m  12m S  3.3  0.3  89:22.09 Xorg                                                            
  168 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S  2.0  0.0  29:11.60 kslowd000                                                       
 4259 root      20   0  591m  10m 2044 S  1.3  0.1 108:00.46 libvirtd                                                        
 5115 paul      20   0  448m 6056 3940 S  1.3  0.0 156:35.79 multiload-apple                                                 
31745 bingning  20   0  675m  28m 3996 S  1.3  0.2   4:11.60 gnome-settings-                                                 
 2955 helen     20   0  534m  13m 3772 S  1.0  0.1   1:27.87 gnome-settings-                                                 
 4700 paul      20   0  551m  29m 3628 S  1.0  0.2   5:45.34 gnome-settings-                                                 
 5169 paul      20   0  548m  14m 5696 S  0.7  0.1   9:14.50 gnome-terminal                                                  
19369 paul      20   0 15576 1592  868 R  0.7  0.0   0:00.19 top

Comment 2 Tomáš Bžatek 2010-11-16 10:50:30 UTC
Can you please grab backtraces of those processes? http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/StackTraces

Comment 3 Paul Howarth 2010-11-16 10:56:48 UTC
I killed them for now but I'm sure they'll show up again in the next few days so I'll grab traces then.

Comment 4 Tomáš Bžatek 2010-11-16 11:05:51 UTC
(In reply to comment #3)
> I killed them for now but I'm sure they'll show up again in the next few days
> so I'll grab traces then.
Usually this happens when udisks daemon is not running or with system dbus issues.

Comment 5 mahdi 2010-11-16 19:28:44 UTC
i install fedora 14 and problem is solved

Comment 6 Paul Howarth 2010-11-16 20:34:29 UTC
(In reply to comment #4)
> (In reply to comment #3)
> > I killed them for now but I'm sure they'll show up again in the next few days
> > so I'll grab traces then.
> Usually this happens when udisks daemon is not running or with system dbus
> issues.

udisks is running here; any other tell-tale signs of system dbus issues?

(In reply to comment #5)
> i install fedora 14 and problem is solved

Not for me it isn't (see Comment #1).

Comment 7 Paul Howarth 2010-11-23 09:50:54 UTC
Created attachment 462286 [details]
Stack trace from CPU-eating process

Here's a stack trace from gvfs-gdu-volume-monitor currently gobbling up CPU on my machine. I think this behaviour started in the last 24 hours and might be related to burning a DVD, which I did yesterday. The written DVD has since been ejected.

$ top -n 1 | head
top - 09:50:14 up 13 days, 18:05, 13 users,  load average: 3.73, 3.66, 3.37
Tasks: 665 total,   5 running, 660 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s):  3.8%us,  2.4%sy,  0.0%ni, 93.0%id,  0.8%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Mem:  12328580k total, 12112812k used,   215768k free,   469188k buffers
Swap:  8388600k total,  1209640k used,  7178960k free,  3977424k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND                                                                  
17921 paul      20   0  370m 220m 1636 R 95.4  1.8 340:52.76 gvfs-gdu-volume                                                          
25302 bingning  20   0  372m 222m 1616 R 95.4  1.8 343:43.35 gvfs-gdu-volume                                                          
 7467 root      20   0  241m  11m 4804 R 18.7  0.1   0:00.11 yum

Comment 8 Paul Howarth 2010-12-14 10:55:59 UTC
I now believe that this issue is triggered on my system when /etc/cron.weekly/99-raid-check runs (I have a bunch of RAID1 arrays). Every Tuesday when I get up, each gvfs-gdu-volume process is pegged at nearly 100% and I have to kill them all to quieten everything down (literally - the fans are running full speed to keep the CPUs cool).

I just then tried running /etc/cron.weekly/99-raid-check manually this morning and the one gvfs-gdu-volume process running as a result of my son logging in this morning went to nearly 100% straight away.

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Comment 10 Paul Howarth 2011-06-02 12:11:50 UTC
Still happens with Fedora 14.

Comment 11 Paul Howarth 2011-06-29 12:10:36 UTC
Still happens with Fedora 15.

Comment 12 Clyde E. Kunkel 2011-08-23 16:43:13 UTC
Seeing this in rawhide

Comment 13 Paul Howarth 2011-11-14 14:42:51 UTC
gvfs-gdu-volume eats CPU when a RAID resync happens too, as I found out this morning after replacing a drive.

Comment 14 Patrick C. F. Ernzer 2011-12-21 15:23:36 UTC
I experience this bug in Fedora 16 x86_64, adjusting release and platform.

Comment 15 Patrick C. F. Ernzer 2011-12-21 15:27:30 UTC
while I do use RAID, my disks are currently not in resync
$ cat /proc/mdstat 
Personalities : [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] [raid1] 
md1 : active raid5 sda2[0] sdb2[1] sdc2[3]
      1952494592 blocks super 1.1 level 5, 512k chunk, algorithm 2 [3/3] [UUU]
      bitmap: 2/8 pages [8KB], 65536KB chunk

md0 : active raid1 sda1[0] sdb1[1] sdc1[2]
      511988 blocks super 1.0 [3/3] [UUU]
      
unused devices: <none>

Comment 16 Kai Meyer 2011-12-29 19:25:35 UTC
I'm on RHEL 6.2, and I just used Rhythmbox for the first time on this machine to rip a CD to ogg. Coincidentally, today is the first day I've ever had this problem. I can't say they are related, but the timing is within minutes of each other.

Now that I've ejected the disk, udevd is now taking up CPU time. I'll log out and log back in to see if that helps.

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