I had the same problem on Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS 64bits. I left my computer running during the week-end (with 4 programs running with < 100Mio usage each) and I ended up with nautilus eating 3 Gio RAM. It was the limit of my RAM and I was lucky enough to have enough responsiveness when I came back to identify and kill nautilus.
This is a critical bug since it can render a computer non-responsive if nautilus is not killed in time, however as it seems to be increasing over a long period of time, it is difficult to pinpoint what is wrong. The fact that this bug don't seem to be widespread also suggest that either the flavor of Ubuntu used is rare (12.04 64 ?), or that some special events must occur for this bug to manifest itself. Notes : - I don't remember having any nautilus opened - I don't have big pictures that would need a lot of thumbnail - I use nautilus-terminal -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/952108 Title: [Precise] Nautilus: memory leak Status in Nautilus: New Status in “nautilus” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Hello, It's just to note that Nautilus has memory leaks with the latest version: with an uptime of 10 hours, Nautilus uses 420Mo. It's maybe interesting to know that: * I'm using a slideshow and not one single image as background. * I opened Nautilus in directories where big files were being downloaded (and Nautilus regularly refreshed their preview) * I made a few actions (like opening directories with a lot of files, moving files, creating directories, extracting tarball, etc.) * I'm using a few plugins like nautilus-dropbox, nautilus-image-converter, etc. * I've bookmarks with special characters like 'Vidéos' and 'Téléchargements'. I hope it will help you to fix this bug ;) ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: nautilus 1:3.3.91-0ubuntu4 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-18.29-generic 3.2.9 Uname: Linux 3.2.0-18-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 1.94.1-0ubuntu2 Architecture: amd64 Date: Sun Mar 11 10:35:32 2012 GsettingsChanges: org.gnome.nautilus.window-state geometry '800x552+483+87' org.gnome.nautilus.window-state start-with-status-bar true InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Alpha amd64 (20110803.1) SourcePackage: nautilus UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/nautilus/+bug/952108/+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
