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Dr. Amr Osman (dr3mro) wrote : Re: [Bug 407809] Re: nautilus memory leak in thumbnail view

simple just kill nautilus before you begin
$nautilus -q
then follow the guide
that's it
:)

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On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 5:20 AM, Ramy Eid <email address hidden> wrote:

> @d3mro
> Can you explain how did you use valgrind to debug nautilus I tried to run
> it
> but it exits without writing any logs ! I followed this tutorial
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Valgrind
>
> On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 05:48, dr3mro <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> > ok i am having the same bug and this is the log of valgrind
> > plz help this bug is so embarrassment for gnome
> >
> > ** Attachment added: "valgrind-logs-nautilus.tar.gz"
> > http://launchpadlibrarian.net/30838391/valgrind-logs-nautilus.tar.gz
> >
> > --
> > nautilus memory leak in thumbnail view
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/407809
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>
> --
> Rami Eid
>
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> nautilus memory leak in thumbnail view
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/407809
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> Status in “nautilus” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: nautilus
>
> You can generate this bug by opening a folder that contains a video that is
> being edited. For example, video that is downloaded using torrents. I left
> the folder open for five hours and nautlius memory allocation reached 293 MB
> ! You can try for less periods and you will see that memory allocated to
> nautilus is increasing
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> Architecture: i386
> Date: Sun Aug 2 00:02:41 2009
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
> Package: nautilus 1:2.27.4-0ubuntu3
> ProcEnviron:
> PATH=(custom, user)
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-4.23-generic
> SourcePackage: nautilus
> Uname: Linux 2.6.31-4-generic i686
>