This is a serious issue because it can happen at unpredictable times, and the memory leak runs with enormous speed. The system locks up so much that I had to hard reboot several times which is not good and can do damage to files.
As far as I found out, the issue happens when nautilus tries to generate a thumbnail of a specific file (or a symlink of such a file) that is laying in the Desktop folder. When the file is in another location, nautilus still fails to create a thumbnail but doesn't leak memory. Thumbnail generation should be able to fail (with appropriate error/exception handling) and ignore failed files without impacting the system. ** Attachment added: "Zip archive containing a file that causes issues with thumbnailing when it is located in the Desktop folder." https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/1211937/+attachment/3778593/+files/file.zip -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1211937 Title: Nautilus leaks memory right after system start To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/1211937/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
