I have the same problem with a Canon Digital Ixus V3 / Ubuntu 12.04. I killed gvsfd-gphoto2 when it was using more than 2.5 GB of memory. There are 100MB of jpg-pictures and 10 MB of mpg-movies (only a few seconds) saved on the camera. With Ubuntu 11.10 browsing/copying works just fine.
I have the same problem with a Canon Digital Ixus V3 / Ubuntu 12.04. I killed gvsfd-gphoto2 when it was using more than 2.5 GB of memory. There are 100MB of jpg-pictures and 10 MB of mpg-movies (only a few seconds) saved on the camera. With Ubuntu 11.10 browsing/copying works just fine.