nautilus don't liberate the memory

Bug #1341292 reported by ar barzh paour
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This bug affects 3 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
nautilus (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
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Bug Description

nautilus (3.10.1-0ubuntu8,3.10.1-0ubuntu9.1)
don't liberate then memory
I use Ctrl ++ to increase the images
exemple
directory Rep:: 616 photos (2,1 Gio)
open Nautilus on this directory Rep , Ctrl +++++++ , close nautilus
memory occuped by nautilus : 527Mio
......
I redo this (five times)
open Nautilus on this directory Rep , Ctrl +++++++ close nautilus
memory occuped by nautilus : 2,8Gio
the six time : nautilus is killed by the system ( because memory occuped more 80% )

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: nautilus 1:3.10.1-0ubuntu9.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-30.55-generic 3.13.11.2
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-30-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.2
Architecture: i386
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Sun Jul 13 15:47:03 2014
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/nautilus
GsettingsChanges:
 b'org.gnome.nautilus.list-view' b'default-visible-columns' b"['name', 'size', 'type', 'date_modified', 'permissions', 'where']"
 b'org.gnome.nautilus.list-view' b'default-column-order' b"['name', 'size', 'type', 'date_modified', 'date_accessed', 'owner', 'group', 'permissions', 'mime_type', 'where']"
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-05-25 (48 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release i386 (20140417)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=fr_FR
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: nautilus
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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ar barzh paour (yannbaol) wrote :
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in nautilus (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Zakhar (alainb06) wrote :

The same bug exists on Nemo (should there be different bug report?)
It is less troublesome when you don't set Nemo as handling also your desktop, because closing Nemo correctly frees the memory.

$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS
Release: 14.04
Codename: trusty

$ uname -a
Linux alain-Desktop 3.13.0-33-generic #58-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jul 29 16:45:05 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

$ dpkg -s nemo
Package: nemo
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: misc
Installed-Size: 2096
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <email address hidden>
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1.8.4-1.1
Depends: desktop-file-utils (>= 0.7), gsettings-desktop-schemas, gvfs (>= 1.3.2), libglib2.0-data, nemo-data (= 1.8.4-1.1), shared-mime-info (>= 0.50), libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.32.0), libc6 (>= 2.14), libcairo-gobject2 (>= 1.10.0), libcairo2 (>= 1.10.0), libexempi3 (>= 2.2.0), libexif12, libgail-3-0 (>= 3.0.0), libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 (>= 2.22.0), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.37.3), libgnome-desktop-3-7 (>= 3.2.0), libgtk-3-0 (>= 3.3.18), libnemo-extension1 (>= 1.1.2), libnotify4 (>= 0.7.0), libpango-1.0-0 (>= 1.20.0), libpangocairo-1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0), libx11-6, libxml2 (>= 2.7.4)
Recommends: eject, gvfs-backends, librsvg2-common, nemo-fileroller
Suggests: eog, evince | pdf-viewer, totem | mp3-decoder, xdg-user-dirs
Conffiles:
 /etc/xdg/autostart/nemo-autostart.desktop 01d1d8b6dbcb93ff99e0ad13004bd209
Description: File manager and graphical shell for Cinnamon
 Nemo is the official file manager for the Cinnamon desktop. It allows
 to browse directories, preview files and launch applications associated
 with them. It is also responsible for handling the icons on the Cinnamon
 desktop. It works on local and remote filesystems.
 .
 Several icon themes and components for viewing different kinds of files
 are available in separate packages.
Original-Maintainer: Nicolas Bourdaud <email address hidden>
Homepage: http://www.github.com/linuxmint/nemo/

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