Comment 29 for bug 174809

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Omer Akram (om26er) wrote : Re: [Bug 174809] Re: Nautilus using more and more memory (depending on the system up-time)

Alecz20 try nautilus 2.32 in Ubuntu 10.10

On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 1:10 AM, Alecz20 <email address hidden> wrote:

> I have a fresh install of Ubuntu 9.10 64-bit.
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> While copying a vew hundred GB of data from one partition to another, I
> noticed that Nautilus was using about 1 GB of RAM (out of 4 GB).
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> After the transfer finished the usage remained the same.
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> Note that this is a fresh install, the only additional things were the
> ATI proprietary driver, TrueCrypt, and VirtualBox, so no codecs, or
> plugins.
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> Nautilus using more and more memory (depending on the system up-time)
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/174809
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> nautilus in ubuntu.
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> Status in Nautilus: New
> Status in “nautilus” package in Ubuntu: Triaged
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> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: nautilus
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> The more my system stays up, the more memory Nautilus uses.
> Currently, nautilus uses 145mb of RAM. Two hours ago it was 142. More than
> 10 hours ago, it was less than 120.
> Even when I don't use the system, the memory goes up. Currently I'm running
> Deluge (bittorrent), firefox and Pidgin. And that's it.
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> After "killall nautilus", it goes back to _just_ 9.6mb!!
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> My system is up-to-date Gutsy, I have 2gb of ram and 540mb swap.
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