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[Julien Faucher <890441@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

For what it's worth, I had the same problem in Nautilus 3.2.1, using my
home folder as the desktop with a modified user-dirs.dirs . The issue is
present on both my computers (one with Oneiric, the other running Mint
12, but it's the same package AFAIK) and it happens with the user-
dirs.dirs modification as well as with the dconf setting. For both
computers, switching back to the default ~/Desktop directory makes the
leak go away.

For now I was able to fix the problem by downgrading to Nautilus 3.2.0
(package 1:3.2.0-0ubuntu5).

If I can provide any other info to help you resolve this bug, please
tell me.

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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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