Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: nautilus
I'm running Ubuntu Lucid on a Dell XPS M1210 laptop. Nautilus uses ever-
increasing amounts of memory on my system (and a fair bit of the CPU,
too). This is new in Lucid. In Karmic, Nautilus usually used about
5%-10% of my memory (more if I was viewing lots of photos or something,
but the baseline was 10% at the very most). Now it typically uses at
least 7% at startup, which increases over time to as much as 30%. This
happens even if no Nautilus windows are open. If I kill the nautilus
process, when it comes back it uses 70-100% CPU until it's using at
least 10% memory again. (I would give absolute numbers here instead of
percentages, but I'm not sure which ones are which.) All of this happens
regardless of whether I ever open a Nautilus window.
I saw other memory-related bugs, but none of them look quite like what
I'm experiencing. The bottom line is that Nautilus memory usage wasn't a
problem for me in Karmic, but in Lucid it's slowing things down
considerably. I'll be happy to post whatever additional information is
needed.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: nautilus 1:2.30.1-0ubuntu1.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-25.43-generic 2.6.32.21+drm33.7
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-25-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Sep 17 01:07:01 2010
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_US.utf8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: nautilus
** Affects: nautilus (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: apport-bug i386 lucid memory nautilus
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nautilus memory leak
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/641115
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