I'm also seeing this bug on Precise 64-bit, but for me Nautilus grows to eat several GiB of RAM (that's "RSS", sometimes up to 8 GiB of "VIRT") before I (have to) kill it...
Just like the original reporter, some Nautilus windows/tabs might show directories with a lot (thousands) of files and/or subdirectories in them, sometimes with the subdirectories opened so that their contents are also visible (sometimes several levels deep), and there can be changes (either as a result of actions in other Nautilus windows/tabs, or by other programs) that Nautilus has to update its view for. I suppose that lots of directory entries and/or frequent updates would make the impact of memory leaks in certain code paths more visible... I usually have about 2-5 Nautilus windows and maybe a total of 10 tabs in them open, but I don't often open/close new tabs or windows. I also tried this with a system that had no custom nautilus extensions (so only what is installed by default, plus even some of those uninstalled), but that didn't solve the problem. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/952108 Title: [Precise] Nautilus: memory leak To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/nautilus/+bug/952108/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
