I can confirm this on Ubuntu 12.10 64-bit, Files 3.6.3
After opening and closing nautilus the memory keeps rising.
I modified a script I found online to open and close nautilus, log the
mem, and then graph it using:
#!/bin/bash
rm /tmp/mem.log
for (( c=1; c<=100; c++ ))
do
nautilus
sleep 2
wmctrl -c Home
sleep 1
ps -C nautilus -o pid=,rss= >> /tmp/mem.log
clear
echo "$c/100..."
done
echo "Plotting..."
gnuplot gnuplot.script
echo "Done"
I hope my test isn't invalid.
** Attachment added: "mem-graph.png"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/1090770/+attachment/3533741/+files/mem-graph.png
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Title:
file browsing causes memory leaks
Status in “nautilus” package in Ubuntu:
Triaged
Bug description:
Hi!
I use Gnome desktop 3.4.2 on my PC.
I've been recently experiencing some memory leaks while browsing my computer
files. I noticed this bug first with Nautilus, then I tried using another file
manager (PCMan) and it happened again.
What I do when this bug occurs is going into one folder and then trying to go
back to an upper directory or another location (e.g. 'Pictures' folder,
'Music' folder; after that the system slows down, I notice my hard disk drive
is busy and sometimes get an error message for insufficient memory to generate
a report for the bug.
To avoid this problem I'm using KDE desktop, using Dolphin as file browser.
My computer runs Ubuntu 12.04 32-bit.
Thanks for your help.
UPDATE: It seems that the package nautilus is the source of the
problem. Through System Monitor I see the application uses more than 2
GB of RAM and causes the Swap memory to rise uncontrollably. Also when
I use PCMan the error no longer occurs, I don't know why it happened
before.
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