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Any ideas why Gnome Search freezes my desk when SMB mount is unresponsive? (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hej, I noticed an odd problem with my Gnome search recently. That thing that starts searching when the "super-key" is pressed (or the smart corner is triggered). When I start typing some text Gnome starts searching in all kinds of corners of the PC.

That is until my NAS system is not responding. It's automounted to ~/NAS/ and when that remote box is busy I get a complete freeze of my desktop. As in no HID device has any effect. Just seeing occasional disk activity (blinky LED) but that's it.

This takes about 5 minutes before it recovers. Only to start again on the next key stroke!

I guess some search provider checks the $HOME folder and waits for a timeout on the unresponsive cifs share. I want to know which one that is and if I can persuade it to search on local fs only.

Any pointers?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've noticed the same thing with my NFS mount. Every now and then, the whole desktop freezes for anywhere between 5 and 30 seconds, even though the NFS server, which is on the local network, is accessible and running fine.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Mine is really down. Poking that server a lot recently xD