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 Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/952108 Title: [Precise] Nautilus: memory leak Status in Nautilus: Invalid 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 : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
