Thank you for your response. I can confirm that this is still an issue with Ubuntu 11.04 using gvfs version 1.8.0-0ubuntu2 from the natty repository. It is also reproducible on my Acer Aspire 8943G laptop which it slows down quickly after all RAM is used although CPU (4 threads) is idle making that a major usability issue for me (and I believe that not only for me).
I have tried it with one 3GB video file on both computers with exactly the same result. During the copying, gvfsd-gphoto2 loaded the video file into system memory by filling the RAM first, then writing to swap, after it has been whole loaded in system memory, it started to writing it onto HDD (this was the first moment after about 3 minutes of loading it into memory first when the status bar in the "Copying" window moved from 0B somewhere rightwards). All the memory used during the copying has been freed up only after it had been completely written onto HDD. According to system monitor, the gvfsd-gphoto2 listed in the Processes tab used less and less memory with the time as it was being written onto HDD, however, the "History of use of memory and swap space" graph in Sources tab didn't show any difference and all the memory used (3GB) was in fact freed short after the end of the copy operation. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/673151 Title: gvfsd-gphoto2 when downloading a file from camera loads entire file into memory first, doesn't write it onto hdd simultaneously To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gvfs/+bug/673151/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
