High memory usage (~12G) of gvfs-udisks2-volume-monitor in Fedora 30
I have noticed since I upgraded from Fedora 28 to Fedora 30 that the process gvfs-udisks2-volume-monitor.out uses way too much memory. My system memory is the following:
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 16376224 14273292 356696 438528 1746236 1329892
Swap: 8255484 4836864 3418620
Top output sorting by memory:
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
4354 user 20 0 12.2g 8.4g 4140 S 0.0 53.8 43:28.43 gvfs-udisks2-vo
I have attached the output from "pmap -pXX 4354" command to gvfs-udisks2-volume-monitor.out gvfs-udisks2-volume-monitor.out
This is the version of gvfs installed on my system
rpm -qa | grep gvfs
gvfs-goa-1.40.1-2.fc30.x86_64
gvfs-fuse-1.40.1-2.fc30.x86_64
gvfs-gphoto2-1.40.1-2.fc30.x86_64
gvfs-client-1.40.1-2.fc30.x86_64
gvfs-afc-1.40.1-2.fc30.x86_64
gvfs-afp-1.40.1-2.fc30.x86_64
gvfs-mtp-1.40.1-2.fc30.x86_64
gvfs-smb-1.40.1-2.fc30.x86_64
gvfs-1.40.1-2.fc30.x86_64
gvfs-archive-1.40.1-2.fc30.x86_64
uptime
12:00:28 up 9 days, 8 min, 1 user, load average: 0.46, 0.62, 0.72
uname -a
Linux roble 5.1.16-300.fc30.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Jul 3 15:06:51 UTC 2019 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
devtmpfs 7.8G 0 7.8G 0% /dev
tmpfs 7.9G 344M 7.5G 5% /dev/shm
tmpfs 7.9G 2.4M 7.9G 1% /run
tmpfs 7.9G 0 7.9G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/sdb4 98G 11G 83G 12% /
tmpfs 7.9G 41M 7.8G 1% /tmp
/dev/sdb2 976M 220M 689M 25% /boot
/dev/sdb3 120G 42G 73G 37% /var
/dev/loop1 89M 89M 0 100% /var/lib/snapd/snap/core/7169
/dev/loop4 175M 175M 0 100% /var/lib/snapd/snap/spotify/32
/dev/loop2 89M 89M 0 100% /var/lib/snapd/snap/core/7270
/dev/loop8 203M 203M 0 100% /var/lib/snapd/snap/vlc/770
/dev/loop3 174M 174M 0 100% /var/lib/snapd/snap/spotify/34
/dev/loop7 85M 85M 0 100% /var/lib/snapd/snap/simplescreenrecorder-mardy/4
/dev/loop5 181M 181M 0 100% /var/lib/snapd/snap/spotify/35
/dev/sdb1 200M 19M 182M 10% /boot/efi
/dev/loop6 203M 203M 0 100% /var/lib/snapd/snap/vlc/1049
/dev/sdb6 689G 31G 624G 5% /home
//x.x.x.x/backup 5.5T 4.9T 612G 89% /mnt/backup
//x.x.x.x/projects 2.7T 2.5T 259G 91% /mnt/projects
tmpfs 1.6G 20M 1.6G 2% /run/user/1000
/dev/loop12 36M 36M 0 100% /var/lib/snapd/snap/gtk-common-themes/1198
/dev/loop0 43M 43M 0 100% /var/lib/snapd/snap/gtk-common-themes/1313
/dev/loop9 55M 55M 0 100% /var/lib/snapd/snap/core18/1055
/dev/loop11 55M 55M 0 100% /var/lib/snapd/snap/core18/1066
If I restart the machine, the memory usage by gvfs-udisks2-volume-monitor is low, but after 2-3 days, it increases dramatically. Would be good to know why the process is taking so much memory.
Let me know if more information is needed. Thanks for your support. Ivan