Gzip or Bzip still runing after cancel Button is pressed

[MarioGonzalez]

Binary package hint: file-roller

If you press the Cancel button when file-roller is creating a big file the widget close but the process is still running. It can be checked with top

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks for your bug report. This bug has been reported to the developers of the software. You can track it and make comments here: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=432965

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Sames applies to extract. will comment upstream.

[x (dvice-null)]

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.