copied from Bug 1798828 -- Ubuntu LTS 16.04.6 118K files in trash gvfs-trash consumes both CPUs and 100% of available memory
"empty trash" goes into prepare phase, but nothing appears to happen, presumably because of the large number of files, so I closed the window by clicking the <x> rm -rf ~/.local/share/Trash/* nautilus window on trash:/// goes dark for a long time, but eventually comes back to show Trash to be empty opening the Trash icon (on the on the launch bar) shows it to be empty and both <restore> and <empty> buttons are greyed out, but the Trash icon still shows 'filled' -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gvfs in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1558768 Title: gvfsd-trash causing high CPU-load when try to empty trash with thousands of files To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gvfs/+bug/1558768/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
