Damn, in my case it seems that variety is the problem. Everytime the desktop background is changed nautilus increases his RAM usage by ca. 300 MB which seems to be the "default" usage for one nautilus instance.
I used gnome-tweak-tool to disable the option, that nautilus manages my desktop content and now everything seems to work fine. To mee it seems more a variety bug than a nautilus bug, but im not sure about it -- 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
