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[ubuntu] gvfsd-http What does this actually do?

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http://ubuntuforums.org – As per title really: what is gvfsd-http and what does it do? I noticed it recently in my process list as: /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfsd-http --spawner :1.6 /org/gtk/gvfs/exec_spaw/2 with various outbound connections. My search-fu must be lacking as all I find is discussions similar to this asking what it is and the most complete answers simply saying it is part of gvfs so best not to remove it. That doesn't leave a good feeling with me for a process that is making outbound connections. Anyone have any information which package this belongs to at least? Thanks :) (Hardware)

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**note to Moderaters - this is not a dupe of my General Discussion thread - this is specifically about blocking the actions of this process, not what it does :P

I noticed this in my process recently list: /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfsd-http --spawner :1.6 /org/gtk/gvfs/exec_spaw/2

It seems to make various outbound network requests.

the output is this ps x | grep gvfs 568 ? S 0:00 /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfsd 570 ? Sl 0:00 /usr/lib/gvfs//gvfs-fuse-daemon -f /home/cow/.gvfs 584 ? S 0:00 /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfs-udisks2-volume-monitor 680 pts/0 S+ 0:00 grep gvfs

beopen https://bbs.archlinux.org/profile.php?id=61450

2012-08-16T03:49:34Z

These are the man pages for

gvfs-cat gvfs-less gvfs-monitor-dir gvfs-move gvfs-rm gvfs-trash gvfs-copy gvfs-ls gvfs-monitor-file gvfs-open gvfs-save gvfs-tree gvfs-info gvfs-mkdir gvfs-mount gvfs-rename gvfs-set-attribute

http://www.unix.com/man-pages.php?query=gvfs-in

Trees 14 weeks 5 days ago

I prefer a Norfolk Island Pine, or perhaps we can discuss the Rush song.

Running netstat I found this:

netstat -tpW | column -t

Quote:

Active Internet connections (w/o servers) Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State PID/Program name

tcp 1 0 pither.localdomain:38278 spider.kde.org:http CLOSE_WAIT 1629/g

What does gvfs do for me on my Kubuntu machine and why is /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfs-gdu-volume-monitor eating so much CPU time?

BTW: I read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GVFS and still don't know what's in it for me, especially on KDE / Kubuntu.

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