When leaving a computer on overnight (or, to make it even worse, for several nights) there's a noticeable decrease in desktop responsivness (the best way to describe it is: grab a window, like a terminal window, and move it around - it really continiously stops moving for a fraction of a second or so). Also, when looking in system monitor (during those slowdowns) - there's a high enough memory consumption for nautilus.
Ways to reproduce: leave computer on, work on it with everyday tasks. In a day, desktop responsiveness will be much lower. In a few days - desktop will be almost unusable. Memory footprint for nautilus will rise.
Ways to stop: sudo service gdm restart helps.
WAY TO FIX: sudo aptitude remove appmenu-gtk
Binary package hint: appmenu-gtk
When leaving a computer on overnight (or, to make it even worse, for several nights) there's a noticeable decrease in desktop responsivness (the best way to describe it is: grab a window, like a terminal window, and move it around - it really continiously stops moving for a fraction of a second or so). Also, when looking in system monitor (during those slowdowns) - there's a high enough memory consumption for nautilus.
Ways to reproduce: leave computer on, work on it with everyday tasks. In a day, desktop responsiveness will be much lower. In a few days - desktop will be almost unusable. Memory footprint for nautilus will rise.
Ways to stop: sudo service gdm restart helps.
WAY TO FIX: sudo aptitude remove appmenu-gtk
I fixed it permanently by uninstalling appmenu-gtk, as described here: ubuntuforums. org/showthread. php?t=1557451 www.webupd8. org/2010/ 07/nautilus- memory- leak-fix- ubuntu- 1004.html
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After uninstalling appmenu-gtk - nautilus no longer leaks, desktop is highly responsive and doesn't slow down over time.
Couldn't find an appropriate bug report, so filing a bug. This issue is really bothering me.
Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal
Appmenu-gtk version: 0.2.1-0ubuntu3