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[Jean Christophe André <launchpad@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I confirm on my side that the gsetting suggestion from Ted Gould
(comment #8) is working for a user with his homedir over NFS. I have now
put it in my default Ubuntu deployment strategy.

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Title:
  hud-service frequently tries to accesses non existing files causing
  high disk/network activity

Status in The Application Menu:
  Confirmed
Status in System Load Indicator:
  Confirmed
Status in “indicator-appmenu” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  /usr/lib/indicator-appmenu/hud-service is frequently calling access()
  for the following three files:

  access("<home>/.cache/indicator-appmenu/hud-usage-log.sqlite-journal", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
  access("<home>/.cache/indicator-appmenu/hud-usage-log.sqlite-wal", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
  access("/usr/share/indicator-appmenu/hud/app-info/multiload.hud-app-info", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)

  which apparently do not exist (excerpt from strace log, <home> is
  users home directory).

  For NFS mounted homes this causes a constant network traffic of ~300kB/s down and ~50kB/s up in idle state.
  On slower machines this causes a more than noticable CPU load (with and without NFS mounted homes).

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
  Package: indicator-appmenu 0.3.97-0ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-24.37-generic 3.2.14
  Uname: Linux 3.2.0-24-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
  ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu7
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Sun May 13 15:36:15 2012
  ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/indicator-appmenu/hud-service
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
  SourcePackage: indicator-appmenu
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-04-28 (15 days ago)

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