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What i get on Precise i386:

- on cold boot, nautilus use around 10 Mib
- then xsession-errors is recording continously gtk-critical errors, mainly due to both Unity, so i've purged them to slow down this madness. Purging/reinstalling several times or reconfiguring dont help on that side. About 10 Mib errors are recorded per hour and ram used by nautilus is growing the same way , increasing by 10 Mib /hour.
- nautilus seems to fill ram with all the events/errors of the system, wonder if zeitgeist is the cause, but cant be removed easily from the system.
- even if the nautilus gui is closed, the amount of ram used is not reduced.

Hope a fix, as nautilus might be only a browser.

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Title:
  nautilus memory leak

Status in “nautilus” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  There are other bug reports with this description, but they are either
  3-4 years old, or closed, or invalid, or expired.

  I'm not doing anything exotic, but after about an hour or two of using
  my system (not even copying or moving files, or thumbnailing, or...)
  memory usage in nautilus goes up to 1.4G or so. When I kill this task,
  re-launch nautilus, it sits happily on just a few hundred meg... and
  then begins to grow again.

  It also takes a LONG time to start up, and the system is very
  unresponsive meanwhile... like 20 seconds. This may be a useful clue?

  I tried to do a valgrind report, but it makes nautilus so slow as to
  be unusable -- like 2 minutes to open a folder on the desktop... so I
  couldn't exactly "use it normally" to get a good log. Nonetheless,
  here's a log I did capture.

  I trust that the data captured by ubuntu-bug will have my library
  versions, cpu type, RAM info, etc. Please let me know what else I can
  provide. Thanks!

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: nautilus 1:3.2.1-0ubuntu3.1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-13.22-generic 3.0.6
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-13-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Mon Nov 14 15:51:46 2011
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Alpha amd64 (20110802.1)
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: nautilus
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-08-17 (88 days ago)

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