This is what happened to me: 1. I was trying to create a big tar.gz file from 2 GB source. 2. Progress bar doesn't show any progress show after a while I canceled it 3. I tried again creating a .zip file from the same source 4. Again, no progress, so I cancel it. 5. After a while my computer starts jamming due to out of memory (which I have 4 GB and normally max 1 GB of it is in use) 6. Then my computer starts shutting down my applications due to out of memory errors 7. I finally manage to locate the cause after logging in to command line and kill file-roller, but some data was already lost due to killed applications.
I see that this bug has been soon open for 4 years and that there are several other faults, reported to upstream which are not fixed. Suggestions: - Remove that application from Ubuntu. - Or fix it - Or rewrite it - Or build a system which takes down applications that consume huge loads of memory before bad things start to happen. I never figured out why very small applications are killed in out-of-memory situations, instead of the one application that takes 90% of the systems memory and just keeps growing. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/107574 Title: Gzip or Bzip still runing after cancel Button is pressed -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
