Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: nautilus
I right-clicked on a large file (a .flv movie with 262 MB on an NTFS
partition, video codec : FLV1, audio codec: mp3 as reported by VLC) and
chose "Eigenschaften" (German, translates to "Properties", I guess).
It looks as if nautilus tries to swallow the entire file just to display
its properties.
This caused nautilus to freeze; after a while, a dialog appeared with a
(German) text meaning roughly "trying to display properties window,
click cancel to abort". I clicked cancel, but the entire system was
close to frozen, and was obviously swapping like mad.
I checked with "free" on the command line and "Systemüberwachung"
(System Monitor?): almost all physical memory (384 MB) was used;
nautilus used roughly 200MB; the CPU load was below 2%.
I waited for about 15 minutes without any change, then decided to kill
nautilus (by clicking the X in the corner of the window). This took
about 2 minutes. When it finally succumbed, the system was responsive
again.
I use Gutsy (7.10) with nautilus 2.20.0. VLC is my default video player
(for this file type).
The bug may be related to Bug #19756, but I decided to write a new one,
because I was scared off by its status "invalid". I don't want this to
be ignored.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Feb 14 23:37:44 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/nautilus
Package: nautilus 1:2.20.0-0ubuntu7
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: nautilus --sm-client-id 117f000101000120301762200000052090002
--screen 0
ProcCwd: /home/hok
ProcEnviron:
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: nautilus
Uname: Linux schlepper 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Tue Feb 12 07:42:25 UTC 2008
i686 GNU/Linux
** Affects: nautilus (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: apport-bug
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nautilus uses lots of memory when showing properties of large file
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/191979
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