Nautilus Freezes with High CPU and RAM

[bananenkasper]

When opening Nautilus with Icon View, it freezes and causing 100% CPU load and accumulates RAM until the system is out of RAM.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: nautilus 1:3.26.3-0ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-34.37-generic 4.15.18
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-34-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Mon Sep 24 14:44:58 2018
GsettingsChanges:
 b'org.gnome.nautilus.window-state' b'sidebar-width' b'226'
 b'org.gnome.nautilus.window-state' b'geometry' b"'1213x1094+62+186'"
 b'org.gnome.nautilus.icon-view' b'default-zoom-level' b"'larger'"
 b'org.gnome.nautilus.list-view' b'use-tree-view' b'true'
 b'org.gnome.nautilus.list-view' b'default-column-order' b"['name', 'size', 'type', 'owner', 'group', 'permissions', 'mime_type', 'where', 'date_modified', 'date_modified_with_time', 'date_accessed', 'recency']"
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-12-15 (283 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Release amd64 (20171018)
SourcePackage: nautilus
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to bionic on 2018-08-22 (33 days ago)
usr_lib_nautilus: dropbox 2015.10.28

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report. Does it happen every time? Is it specific to a directory? It could be a file that is causing problems in there (there has been case of svg creating issues)

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