** Changed in: xorg-server
Status: Confirmed => Invalid
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/484521
Title:
Nautilus causes memory leak in Xorg?
Status in Gnome System Monitor:
Invalid
Status in X.Org X server:
Invalid
Status in nautilus package in Ubuntu:
Invalid
Bug description:
I'm rather new here, so I hope I can give you the information you need
for this.
Ever since I upgraded to 9.10, I've been noticing my Xorg process will
continue to grow in memory. I've seen it get to ~2GB. At that point,
I kill the process, which then gets restarted and it will be at about
half the size of whatever it was at before. I'll need to do this
every few hours while I'm at work.
I've been googling to find a solution and there seem to be lots of
posts that sound similar, but they all end up having a solution that
doesn't work for me. I'm not using compiz, so it's not related to
that. I'm using gnome with an nVidia video card.
Finally, I was able to reproduce it reliably by using the nautilus
file browser. If I click on a folder like /usr/bin, I watch Xorg's
memory go up by 30-60MB. Then if I click on another folder it goes up
again. If I just go back and forth between those two folders, I can
watch the memory continue to grow. I initially thought it might be a
cache issue, but it never goes back down.
When I kill both nautilus and Xorg, then Xorg finally restarts with a
reasonable ~70MB.
I'm not sure which program is at fault, Xorg or nautilus. Has anyone
else noticed this problem?
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