Description of problem: When I login to GNOME session, nautilus automatically runs in backgroud. Then nautilus seems to eat more and more memory as time passes. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): nautilus-2.21.92-2.fc9 How reproducible: Seems 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1. login to GNOME session 2. Watch the memory usage of nautilus 3. Actual results: Please see attached text Additional info: I guess this issue began to happen from 2.21.91 or 2.21.92?
Created attachment 296456 [details] Memory usage of nautilus
Are you still seeing this ? My nautilus memory usage is stable here...
Well, actually on yesterday this issue still existed so I sent SIGSTOP to nautilus. I will restart nautilus and report the result (after I wake up tomorrow).
Created attachment 298369 [details] Memory usage of nautilus ran 20 hours today.
Tomas, have you looked at this at all ? might be worth running nautilus under valgrind for a while to see if anything suspicious shows up
Created attachment 301418 [details] Memory usage of nautilus Today's nautilus. Still seems a problem.
Created attachment 301659 [details] Memory usage of nautilus And today's nautilus (nautilus-2.22.2-1.fc9.i386)
Can you perhaps run nautilus under valgrind and see if that turns up anything ? The way to do that is to remove nautilus from the session (System>Preferences>Personal>Sessions, go to second tab, select nautilus, click Remove, click Apply) and then run valgrind --leak-check=yes nautilus in a terminal
Created attachment 301921 [details] valgrind log of nautilus Okay, about 7 hours run results of valgrind.
This is a blocker that's not been touched in 7 days - any progress?
Changing version to '9' as part of upcoming Fedora 9 GA. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
I'm having similar problems with nautilus-2.23.6.1-1.fc10.x86_64 in rawhide. I leave my machine running for days at a time, so nautilus just keeps using more and more memory. At the moment it's using 21.9% of 2GB! The problem seems to be much worse when viewing files with large file counts, maybe it caches the lists and file attributes? If so, there should be an expiry time or date for that cached information... Let me know if a valgrind report is needed.
I don't use F-9 any longer so I cannot reproduce this issue by myself... Closing DEFFERED for now...