I can confirm that this is still occurring in 12.04. If the trash bin is very full, Cairo-dock consumes massive amounts of memory, ultimately bringing the system to a screeching halt.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gvfs in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/662705 Title: gvfsd-trash fills up memory Status in “gvfs” package in Ubuntu: Expired Bug description: Binary package hint: gvfs gvfsd-trash process multiply in memory and cause Cairo Dock to inflate its memory usage up to the maximum of available memory (3Gb) before drastically slowing down the host since the swap goes crazy under the load. Happens both using regular and OpenGL Cairo Dock versions. Ubuntu 9.10 (x64) - kernel 2.6.31-22-generic - gvfs package 1.4.1-0ubuntu1 - GNOME 2.28.1 - Cairo Dock version 2.2.0-4 What I noticed: Cairo-dock icon could not report the dust bin to be filled (ie it kept showing the empty bin icon). In fact, my dust bin contained 8.9Gb of deleted files. Killing the Cairo Dock process solved the bad host responsiveness. Emptying the dust bin with Nautilus solved the rest of the bug. Restarting Cairo-dock after that makes the whole system behave normally. Noob conclusion: there's a bug in gvfs-trash causing it to panic when the dust bin gets severly loaded. Extra: this never occured before despite the fact I had a dust bin containing even more than 8.9Gb. Problem *seems* to have raised with the latest kernel update. Hope this helps To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gvfs/+bug/662705/+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
