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[Kaho <662705@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, I'm using Natty and I was affected by this bug this week because of a bin with 3GB of files. Gvfsd-trash and cairo-dock processes took all the CPU.
Problem was "solved" by emptying my bin.

So yeah, this bug still occurs in Ubuntu 11.04 :(

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Title:
  gvfsd-trash fills up memory

Status in “gvfs” package in Ubuntu:
  Expired

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: gvfs

  gvfsd-trash process multiply in memory and cause Cairo Dock to inflate
  its memory usage up to the maximum of available memory (3Gb) before
  drastically slowing down the host since the swap goes crazy under the
  load. Happens both using regular and OpenGL Cairo Dock versions.

  Ubuntu 9.10 (x64) - kernel 2.6.31-22-generic - gvfs package
  1.4.1-0ubuntu1 - GNOME 2.28.1 - Cairo Dock version 2.2.0-4

  What I noticed: Cairo-dock icon could not report the dust bin to be
  filled (ie it kept showing the empty bin icon). In fact, my dust bin
  contained 8.9Gb of deleted files.

  Killing the Cairo Dock process solved the bad host responsiveness.
  Emptying the dust bin with Nautilus solved the rest of the bug.
  Restarting Cairo-dock after that makes the whole system behave
  normally.

  Noob conclusion: there's a bug in gvfs-trash causing it to panic when
  the dust bin gets severly loaded.

  Extra: this never occured before despite the fact I had a dust bin
  containing even more than 8.9Gb. Problem *seems* to have raised with
  the latest kernel update.

  Hope this helps

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