Sigh. I let it run for about 15 minutes. I tried to "use" it, but like I said, it takes about 1m just to open a window. So I didn't use it "much".
It's not possible to monitor the resource usage of nautilus when it's running inside of valgrind, because it's not in the System Monitor anymore... a 500MB task that wraps it up is instead. What's happening inside of this appears to be opaque to the tools I have. I have about 15 items on the "desktop"... one perhaps clue is that I have the "desktop" set to ~/ via the gconf settings. This means that there are very many ".dotfiles" which are hidden to nautilus as it paints the desktop. There is one .png on the desk, but it hasn't updated in weeks. I'm not downloading anything there (I have Downloads, ala Ubuntu standard). To pursue this line of reasoning, I've turned off everything on the "Preview" tab of the nautilus preferences... removed most of the files from the "~" to clean the "desktop" and restarted nautilus. I'll watch it for a while and report back. One probably irrelevant thing: I see TONS of these in .xsession-errors: "(nautilus:18652): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_container_foreach: assertion `GTK_IS_CONTAINER (container)' failed" -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/890441 Title: nautilus memory leak Status in “nautilus” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: There are other bug reports with this description, but they are either 3-4 years old, or closed, or invalid, or expired. I'm not doing anything exotic, but after about an hour or two of using my system (not even copying or moving files, or thumbnailing, or...) memory usage in nautilus goes up to 1.4G or so. When I kill this task, re-launch nautilus, it sits happily on just a few hundred meg... and then begins to grow again. It also takes a LONG time to start up, and the system is very unresponsive meanwhile... like 20 seconds. This may be a useful clue? I tried to do a valgrind report, but it makes nautilus so slow as to be unusable -- like 2 minutes to open a folder on the desktop... so I couldn't exactly "use it normally" to get a good log. Nonetheless, here's a log I did capture. I trust that the data captured by ubuntu-bug will have my library versions, cpu type, RAM info, etc. Please let me know what else I can provide. Thanks! ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: nautilus 1:3.2.1-0ubuntu3.1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-13.22-generic 3.0.6 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-13-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4 Architecture: amd64 Date: Mon Nov 14 15:51:46 2011 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Alpha amd64 (20110802.1) ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: nautilus UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-08-17 (88 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/890441/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp