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Anyone seeing a huge memory leak in Nautilus these days? I thought it was an I/O problem for my computer but I just watched as Nautilus chewed up 80% of ...
  1. 03-29-2009 #1
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    Nautilus MEMORY LEAK!

    Anyone seeing a huge memory leak in Nautilus these days? I thought it was an I/O problem for my computer but I just watched as Nautilus chewed up 80% of my RAM (2 gigs) in a matter of seconds....

    How should I fix this? I can't have Nautilus doing this as I use it often
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    Can't say I've noticed it but then my main desktop is Mint 5 (based on Ubuntu 8.04)
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    looks like a known bug:

    https://bugs.launchpad.net/nautilus/+bug/204413

    hopefully it's fixed soon
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    How did you notice that it was "Chewing up your RAM"? Did you just use the top command and saw it that way? Was your system grinding to a a halt as soon as you launched Nautilus? I have just installed Gnome and I am just curious.
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    Well first symptoms was when I accessed my videos folder nautilus would lock up after about 10-15 seconds. I thought it was an I/O problem but I ran three different things to check my drive and all of them showed up clear. So then I randomly minimized nautilus before it locked and saw in my conky monitor that my RAM was shooting up fast.
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