I have used System Monitor to kill the gvfsd process and that has released the consumed swap, confirming my suspicions that gvfsd was responsible for consuming the memory. Since gvfsd automatically gets restarted, that kind of works for me, but I hope you agree it's not a very good solution.
-- gvfsd allocates huge amounts of memory while playing audio files https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/316093 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
