Comment 4 for bug 641115

I don't know about Natty, but I'm no longer experiencing the bug in
Maverick.

On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 12:24 PM, Pedro Villavicencio <email address hidden>wrote:

> Thanks for the report, it has been some time without any response or
> feedback in this bug report and we are wondering if this is still an
> issue for you with the latest release of Ubuntu the Natty Narwhal, May
> you please test with that version and comment back if you're still
> having or not the issue? Please have a look at
> http://www.ubuntu.com/download to know how to install that
> version.Thanks in advance and sorry for the late response.
>
> ** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu)
> Importance: Undecided => Low
>
> ** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>
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> Title:
> nautilus memory leak
>
> Status in “nautilus” package in Ubuntu:
> Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: nautilus
>
> I'm running Ubuntu Lucid on a Dell XPS M1210 laptop. Nautilus uses
> ever-increasing amounts of memory on my system (and a fair bit of the
> CPU, too). This is new in Lucid. In Karmic, Nautilus usually used
> about 5%-10% of my memory (more if I was viewing lots of photos or
> something, but the baseline was 10% at the very most). Now it
> typically uses at least 7% at startup, which increases over time to as
> much as 30%. This happens even if no Nautilus windows are open. If I
> kill the nautilus process, when it comes back it uses 70-100% CPU
> until it's using at least 10% memory again. (I would give absolute
> numbers here instead of percentages, but I'm not sure which ones are
> which.) All of this happens regardless of whether I ever open a
> Nautilus window.
>
> I saw other memory-related bugs, but none of them look quite like what
> I'm experiencing. The bottom line is that Nautilus memory usage wasn't
> a problem for me in Karmic, but in Lucid it's slowing things down
> considerably. I'll be happy to post whatever additional information is
> needed.
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
> Package: nautilus 1:2.30.1-0ubuntu1.1
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-25.43-generic 2.6.32.21+drm33.7
> Uname: Linux 2.6.32-25-generic i686
> Architecture: i386
> Date: Fri Sep 17 01:07:01 2010
> EcryptfsInUse: Yes
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
> ProcEnviron:
> LANG=en_US.utf8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> SourcePackage: nautilus
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