nautilus memory leak

[zorblek]

Binary package hint: nautilus

I'm running Ubuntu Lucid on a Dell XPS M1210 laptop. Nautilus uses ever-increasing amounts of memory on my system (and a fair bit of the CPU, too). This is new in Lucid. In Karmic, Nautilus usually used about 5%-10% of my memory (more if I was viewing lots of photos or something, but the baseline was 10% at the very most). Now it typically uses at least 7% at startup, which increases over time to as much as 30%. This happens even if no Nautilus windows are open. If I kill the nautilus process, when it comes back it uses 70-100% CPU until it's using at least 10% memory again. (I would give absolute numbers here instead of percentages, but I'm not sure which ones are which.) All of this happens regardless of whether I ever open a Nautilus window.

I saw other memory-related bugs, but none of them look quite like what I'm experiencing. The bottom line is that Nautilus memory usage wasn't a problem for me in Karmic, but in Lucid it's slowing things down considerably. I'll be happy to post whatever additional information is needed.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: nautilus 1:2.30.1-0ubuntu1.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-25.43-generic 2.6.32.21+drm33.7
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-25-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Sep 17 01:07:01 2010
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: nautilus

[David Kovar (kowy)]

I have the same behaviour. After cca 3 hours working with computer Nautilus is consuming more then 1GB memory.
Distro: Unbuntu 10.04
Nautilus version: 1:2.30.1-0ubuntu1.1

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for the report, it has been some time without any response or feedback in this bug report and we are wondering if this is still an issue for you with the latest release of Ubuntu the Natty Narwhal, May you please test with that version and comment back if you're still having or not the issue? Please have a look at http://www.ubuntu.com/download to know how to install that version.Thanks in advance and sorry for the late response.

[zorblek (zorblek)]

I don't know about Natty, but I'm no longer experiencing the bug in
Maverick.

On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 12:24 PM, Pedro Villavicencio <email address hidden>wrote:

> Thanks for the report, it has been some time without any response or
> feedback in this bug report and we are wondering if this is still an
> issue for you with the latest release of Ubuntu the Natty Narwhal, May
> you please test with that version and comment back if you're still
> having or not the issue? Please have a look at
> http://www.ubuntu.com/download to know how to install that
> version.Thanks in advance and sorry for the late response.
>
> ** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu)
> Importance: Undecided => Low
>
> ** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>
> --
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/641115
>
> Title:
> nautilus memory leak
>
> Status in “nautilus” package in Ubuntu:
> Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: nautilus
>
> I'm running Ubuntu Lucid on a Dell XPS M1210 laptop. Nautilus uses
> ever-increasing amounts of memory on my system (and a fair bit of the
> CPU, too). This is new in Lucid. In Karmic, Nautilus usually used
> about 5%-10% of my memory (more if I was viewing lots of photos or
> something, but the baseline was 10% at the very most). Now it
> typically uses at least 7% at startup, which increases over time to as
> much as 30%. This happens even if no Nautilus windows are open. If I
> kill the nautilus process, when it comes back it uses 70-100% CPU
> until it's using at least 10% memory again. (I would give absolute
> numbers here instead of percentages, but I'm not sure which ones are
> which.) All of this happens regardless of whether I ever open a
> Nautilus window.
>
> I saw other memory-related bugs, but none of them look quite like what
> I'm experiencing. The bottom line is that Nautilus memory usage wasn't
> a problem for me in Karmic, but in Lucid it's slowing things down
> considerably. I'll be happy to post whatever additional information is
> needed.
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
> Package: nautilus 1:2.30.1-0ubuntu1.1
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-25.43-generic 2.6.32.21+drm33.7
> Uname: Linux 2.6.32-25-generic i686
> Architecture: i386
> Date: Fri Sep 17 01:07:01 2010
> EcryptfsInUse: Yes
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
> ProcEnviron:
> LANG=en_US.utf8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> SourcePackage: nautilus
>
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[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you closing the report.