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nautilus package

Nautilus very slow opening larger folders

Bug #661437 reported by wilbur on 2010-10-15

This bug affects 5 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Nautilus	Invalid	Undecided	Unassigned
	nautilus (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Low	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: nautilus

Load Time

10-30 seconds to open /usr/share directory with 333 entries.

46-500+ seconds to open /usr/share/doc with 1,582 entries.

120-165 seconds to open /usr/bin with 1,762 entries.

28-32 seconds to open /usr/lib64 with 1,685 entries.

90 to 100% CPU usage.

"Not responding" when trying to close. Closes OK when it is not working on a large folder.

i7-980, 12 gig ram, fresh install 10.10, 2.6.35-22 64 bit, Evolution 2.30.3 no plugins, Nautilus 3.32.0, gnome-terminal 2.32.0, current updates, ext4 partitions.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: nautilus 1:2.32.0-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.34-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Oct 15 13:13:30 2010
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/nautilus
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: nautilus

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wilbur (wilburgr) wrote on 2010-10-15:

Dependencies.txt Edit (5.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
GConfNonDefault.txt Edit (1.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcMaps.txt Edit (74.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcStatus.txt Edit (751 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
XsessionErrors.txt Edit (2.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
usr_lib_nautilus.txt Edit (348 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote on 2010-10-18:

This bug is an upstream one and it would be quite helpful if somebody experiencing it could send the bug the to the people writing the software. You can learn more about how to do this at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME . Thanks in advance!

Changed in nautilus (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Low

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wilbur (wilburgr) wrote on 2010-10-19:

This may be of low priority but it renders Nautilus virtually useless on even a relatively fast computer with a reasonable amount of ram. Seems to me that it should be worth fixing or that Nautilus could be replaced by a more functional browser until this can be resolved. If there is a fix, please post it.

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Guy Taylor (thebiggerguy) wrote on 2011-04-02:

This is a nautilus problem and not to do with the file system as 'ls' works in milliseconds for the same folders nautilus takes seconds with.

time ls /usr/bin/
......
real 0m0.884s
user 0m0.000s
sys 0m0.040s

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wilbur (wilburgr) wrote on 2011-04-02:

Very disappointing.

Months pass and no change or sign on a fix.

Not even a suggestion about how to fix.

pcmanfm seems to work fine and the terminal has no problems of this sort.

Who do we tell to get something done?

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2011-04-04

Changed in nautilus:
importance:	Unknown → Low
status:	Unknown → Confirmed

Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) on 2011-05-31

Changed in nautilus (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Triaged

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2012-06-20

Changed in nautilus:
importance:	Low → High

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Norbert (nrbrtx) wrote on 2012-09-15:

Same on 11.04.

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dino99 (9d9) wrote on 2013-05-29:

EOL reached on that serie https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

Changed in nautilus (Ubuntu):
status:	Triaged → Invalid
Changed in nautilus:
importance:	High → Undecided
status:	Confirmed → New
status:	New → Invalid