gvfsd takes up too much memory

[lehe]

Hi,

On my Ubuntu 8.10, gvfsd takes up 128.6MB memory. What is the process doing actually? Can I reduce the memory it takes?

Thanks and regards!

[ptkobe]

Hi,

On my Ubuntu 8.10, gvfsd takes up 128.6MB memory. What is the process doing actually? Can I reduce the memory it takes?

Thanks and regards!

searching for gvfsd (didn't knew it) I found this
Re: Stopping gvfsd gracefully

gvfs I am a bit more familiar with, it's the GNOME Virtual File System, its related to fuse, and applications use it to create virtual file systems. Google for "gvfs" and you'll find a lot.

Reading the link, it seems you must have some apllication that uses gvfs running. I don't think its only gnome itself, but it can be.
How did you check for the memory it is using, so I my compare with my machine?

Regards
Luis

[hatebreed]

have you done a system update yet? I would try to update to 9.1 or 10.04, probably would help out a great deal. gvfsd is the daemon of gvfs and it has known issues of doing exactly what your talking about. havent seen a fix in google but I would assume that the newer versions of ubuntu have dealt with this issue.