Just ran into this myself. I have 8GB in my system, and my system locks up @ 4.3GB of RAM each and every single time. This is happening when I'm sending a single 5.9GB compressed folder to a WebDAV server I have on my LAN. I'm doing this through Nautilus.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-vfs2 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/42720 Title: Copying files to webdav broken (first completely copied to RAM and then transfered) Status in Gnome VFS Filesystem Abstraction library: Won't Fix Status in “gnome-vfs2” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Hi, when copying files to a webdav share with nautilus or gnomevfs-copy the following happens currently: 1. a 0 byte file is created 2. the file is completely copied to RAM, nautilus shows this as progress from 0% to 100% 3. the file is finally transfered, nautilus stalls at 100% until it's finished while copying the file to RAM you could obviously run out of memory if the file is too large (to get an easy to setup webdav share you could use gnome-user-share) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gnome-vfs/+bug/42720/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
