Bug 228569

Summary:	New SMB kioslave for each new directory opened
Product:	[Unmaintained] kio	Reporter:	Benedikt Gollatz <benedikt>
Component:	general	Assignee:	David Faure <faure>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	adawit, peter.penz19
Priority:	NOR
Version:	4.4
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	RedHat Enterprise Linux
OS:	Linux
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Description Benedikt Gollatz 2010-02-26 04:14:11 UTC

Version:           1.4 (using KDE 4.4.0)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    RedHat RPMs

Since KDE 4.4.0, when browsing SMB shares, dolphin starts a new KIO slave process for every (sub-)directory that is opened, even if it is on the same share as the previous directory and is opened in the same tab.

Running smbstatus on a Samba SMB server displays a new process (i.e. a new connection) for each directory that was opened. dolphin should reuse existing open connections.

This behavior is bad because it leads to a significant speed loss when browsing SMB shares and wastes resources on both server and client.

The described behavior is new in KDE 4.4.0. I did not experience the problem using KDE 4.3.5.

Comment 1 Malte S. Stretz 2010-06-17 11:49:26 UTC

See also bug 221094 which has some more infos but is currently unassigned.

Comment 2 Benedikt Gollatz 2010-06-20 09:39:20 UTC

I definitely didn't experience the problem in 4.3.4; to me this looks like a regression in 4.4 that still exists in 4.4.4. A different Linux box connecting to the same server but with Ubuntu packages exhibits the same behaviour (also starting when the client was updated to KDE 4.4), so I assume this isn't a problem with the distributor.

Comment 3 Dawit Alemayehu 2011-12-24 08:00:28 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 221094 ***