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.
See also bug 221094 which has some more infos but is currently unassigned.
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.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 221094 ***