Nautilus uses a lot of heap memory coping large amounts of data

[Rex de Jong]

Binary package hint: nautilus

While copying a lot of data (>250GB), Nautilus uses up a lot of memory. This memory is not given back to the system at any time. Depending on the amount of copying Nautilus uses from 800MB up to 3GB.

Now using Ubuntu alpha 6 with Gnome 2.28, but this problemed also showed on my old install (Arch Linux Gnome 2.26)

I attached a printscreen of the memory in the .png. Memory in use that time: 2.4GB. Amount of data copied (not cutted) was about 750GB.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Sep 26 19:20:11 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: nautilus 1:2.28.0-0ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=nl_NL.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-11.36-generic
SourcePackage: nautilus
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-11-generic x86_64

[Rex de Jong (rex-de-jong)]

My system has 6GB ram by the way.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report. The issue is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug the to the people writting the software (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME)

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

any news about this? did you sent it upstream? may you tell us the bug number there? Thanks.

[Rex de Jong (rex-de-jong)]

Upstream bug filed, number: 598602 (https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=598602)

First timer for me, so I hope I it is a correct attempt.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for sending the bug to GNOME

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Do you still get that issue in newer versions?

[Rex de Jong (rex-de-jong)]

Hi,

No, I do not have the issue anymore. Have been using Debian Stable for the last couple of years.

[Rex de Jong (rex-de-jong)]

Re-reading my answer, I doubt it is clear what I meant. What I mean is:

No, the issue is not occurring anymore. I have been using Nautilus in the form of GNOME Files, and have copied large amounts of data frequently. Noted that I use Debian Stable, so I guess it is save to say it will not occur in Ubuntu.

Hope that is a bit more clear ;)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks for the update, closing the bug then