Bug 54684 – Nautilus fills all RAM in some cases

Bug 54684 - Nautilus fills all RAM in some cases

Summary:	Nautilus fills all RAM in some cases

Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	gnome-vfs (Show other bugs)
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Version:	7.3
Hardware:	i386 Linux

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Assigned To:	Havoc Pennington
QA Contact:	Aaron Brown
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Reported:	2001-10-16 05:52 EDT by Alan Cox
Modified:	2007-04-18 12:37 EDT (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Last Closed:	2001-10-22 16:47:45 EDT
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Description Alan Cox 2001-10-16 05:52:49 EDT

Nautilus on a Cyrix MediaGX.

Originally I thought Nautilus was just using too much memory but when I
compared to another box this was obviously not the problem. In fact I was
seeing nautilus expand to fill ram then die

Removing a symlink to itself in my home dir (the dir I was opening a window
view of) fixed the problem

I had

xxx symlinked to xxx

Alan

Comment 1 Havoc Pennington 2001-10-16 10:43:33 EDT

You put that xxx->xxx link there just to break things didn't you. ;-) 

No doubt a pretty easy bug to fix, just slap a limit on symlink-chasing.

Comment 2 Havoc Pennington 2001-10-16 23:55:31 EDT

Upstream as http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62494, 
for reference.

Comment 3 Havoc Pennington 2001-10-19 12:29:52 EDT

Putting an foo->foo link in a random directory did not cause this problem. 
It must be triggered if the link is in your home dir, or maybe if a dir gets
lots of change notifications, or the like...

Comment 4 Anders Carlsson 2001-10-19 12:33:30 EDT

I also don't get it when putting a link in a random directory. Making it on the
desktop triggers it though.

Comment 5 Havoc Pennington 2001-10-22 16:47:40 EDT

I think I found the problem in gnome-vfs, fix in the works.

Comment 6 Havoc Pennington 2001-10-23 14:56:13 EDT

gnome-vfs 1.0.1-18 resolves the problem for me.

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