Bug 55814
| Summary: | nautilus eats memory, crashes? | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Need Real Name <rgiles> |
| Component: | nautilus | Assignee: | Havoc Pennington <hp> |
| Status: | CLOSED WORKSFORME | QA Contact: | Aaron Brown <abrown> |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | high | ||
| Version: | 7.2 | CC: | moneta.mace |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i686 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2001-11-25 19:07:51 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Description
Need Real Name
2001-11-07 02:03:43 UTC
my computer also used to lock up after some period of time when I was using GNOME as default desktop. Now I switched to KDE and everything works fine. But still I don't know why does gnome completely freeze the system. Several days, many crashes, and two reinstalls later, I can't really say I've narrowed down where this bug happens. Some considerations: I updated to 7.2 from 7.1. I think it was updating, and not doing a clean install that caused the buggy gnome/nautilus environment. However, updating probably shouldn't do this, logically. Nautilus still uses a huge amount of memory on the clean install, but it's playing better with the CPU now. I went back to 7.1 on my production machine, and will continue to play with 7.2 on my test machine, to see if I can narrow this bug down better. Sorry for the vehement tone of the original post, it was a shock going from a system that was stable 24/7 to one that made me feel like I was running that 'other' operating system again. I think you're misinterpreting what you see in "top" in several ways. First, all the listings for Nautilus are threads, not processes; the memory for each row does not add up, it's all the same memory. Secondly, memory on Linux is almost never freed, processes typically only grow. This is because freeing it doesn't do that much good (it can just be paged out instead). It's just how memory allocation works. The exception is large allocations, but Nautilus is mostly using lots of small allocations. Finally, you may also be misinterpreting the meaning of the Size/RSS columns; these include the size of binary code, including the nautilus binary and libraries shared with the rest of GNOME. So, in the following top output: 24970 gnome1 9 0 11244 10M 7596 S 0.0 2.1 0:01 nautilus 24976 gnome1 9 0 11244 10M 7596 S 0.0 2.1 0:00 nautilus 24977 gnome1 9 0 11244 10M 7596 S 0.0 2.1 0:00 nautilus 24978 gnome1 9 0 11244 10M 7596 S 0.0 2.1 0:00 nautilus 7596K are shared with other GNOME apps, the total size of Nautilus is 11M or so, but only 11M minus 7596K or 3.5M or so is dynamically allocated, the rest is just shared library code that will be reported in duplicate for all apps using the library. The four listings for Nautilus are about the same process, just different threads, so the total memory is only the 11M, it is not 44. As for crashes, yes that does happen from time to time, but we need backtraces and/or specific instructions to reproduce the crash. Hi, I don't think the problem with your machine locking up is Nautilus/Gnome but rather the kernel. I had the same problem with my machine locking up cold every once in a while after upgrading to 7.2. Needless to say that really sucks! At first I also suspected Gnome/X being the problem but actually it is a kernel oops - I got a new ksyms.X file in /var/log after every cold lockup. Right now I am just downloading the new updated 2.4.9-13-athlon kernel from ftp.redhat.com to see if that fixes my problems. Hello everyone, I've done some more experimentation on this, with two systems, my AMD and my PII laptop. I get weird behavior with both concerning gnome and nautilus, but only if I upgrade the system from RH 7.1. to RH 7.2 If I install fresh, overwrite the disk partitions, etc, I don't get the weird behavior. With the PII the weird behavior consisted of: 1. Not having a panel (I assume the desktop overwrote it, because the panel shows up while loading, then disappears) and then 2. not having Sawfish, even though it should be turned on. Very strange indeed. With the AMD the weird behavior was as described above, lockups, etc. If I upgrade and don't install Nautilus, I don't seem to have the problems, but I only tested this really cusorily, so I'm not entirely sure. Anyway, it seems to me the problem is more to do with the upgrade installation than with the actual core programs. Something is really screwy in the upgrade. Ohh yea, I tested to make sure this wasn't a result of old .gnome files hanging around in $HOME. It wasn't, it happened with a fresh user on the newly upgraded system as well. If someone wants to close this bug, they are welcome to do so, as it seems to me to be a bug in the upgrade somehow. Thanks a lot for your time and attention to this matter. If someone wants me to experiment more, or run tracebacks, etc. Please let me know. I think the "lose panel on upgrade" and "nautilus crashes sometimes" bugs are adequately covered by other bugs that are still open - since this one lacks specific examples I'm removing it so I can see the rest. ;-) |