OK, circling back on this. For testing, I've found that https://cloudsafe.com/ gives free 2GB webdav accounts for use. Once your account is set up, you can reproduce a climbing VIRT count in top by doing the following:
gvfs-mount davs://XXX.webdav.cloudsafe.com/ while true; do gvfs-copy YYY davs://XXX.webdav.cloudsafe.com/; done Looking further. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gvfs in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/606292 Title: WebDAV backend leaks a lot of memory Status in “gvfs” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Back-up over WebDAV to on-line storage fails after it has run for a few hours. This is the kind of error message I get: BackendException: Could not copy /home/xxxxxx/.dejatmp/duplicity- 6Mx8qi-tempdir/mktemp-oUPEQc-231 to dav://webdav.4shared.com/wa/Backup /duplicity-full.20100716T042630Z.vol230.difftar.gpg The temp directory is empty except for an empty deja-dup.log after the crash. The generated deja-dup gconf is attached. I'm running: deja-dup 14.2-0ubuntu0lucid1 duplicity 0.6.08b-0ubuntu2 on Linux Mint 9 Isadora x64 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gvfs/+bug/606292/+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
