I seem to be able to reproduce this issue fairly reliably. I have VirtualBox setup to share a folder with the guest OS. This shared folder is being used as the iTunes music folder.
While playing music in the guest OS (i.e. reading lots of data from the shared folder) the memory usage of gvfsd rises at about 60MB/Minute. Eventually the system has to thrash as the memory usage of gvfsd hits 4GB. I'm not sure if this is related, but gvfsd appears to have memory mapped each library multiple times. This is where the bulk of the memory usage seems to be coming from. Perhaps some file handles aren't being closed properly? When I kill VirtualBox, the memory usage of gvfsd stops increasing. I have attached a screenshot, please let me know if I can grab anything else. Sebastian's comment above mentions to grab a Valgrind, but I'm not sure that I can do with this daemon process. ** Attachment added: "gvfsd memory maps" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/37304657/Screenshot2.png ** Changed in: gvfs (Ubuntu) Status: Invalid => New -- gvfsd memory leak https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/433500 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
