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[Bug 890441] Re: nautilus memory leak

 

Unity is not installed nor compiz (totaly purged)

Looking at .gtk-bookmarks show an issue with dir/subdir names if thet contain "é": translated with % + uppercase letters. 
Had Vidéos & Téléchargement dirs , both was malformed into .gtk-bookmarks. Now i've replaced "é" by "e" to avoid this issue. But need to fix it anyway; i'm using fr_FR-UTF8 as page code.

This temporary workaround dont remove the gtk-crital errors into .xsession-errors, get the same but far less numerous.
Nautilus service at early gnome-classic session (without effect) is using ~10 Mib; if the filebrowser is opened then the ram used grows to 14; opening firefox browser then nautilus use around 20 Mib. 

 I've taken time to observe how that going on: ram crunching seems have
stopped (good news) and the early errors logged to xsession-errors dont
have new error added. That said, since i've renamed the faulty dirs
names, i get this new error:

** CRITICAL **: enchant_dict_check: assertion `g_utf8_validate(word,
len, NULL)' failed

About your request above "gtk3 dbg package", i've looked at synaptic
archive list about "gtk3" and dont find -dbg package except for
canberra; which one(s) do you need ?

AS a result this nautilus issue seems to be a "language" issue as
special letters as "é" are not understood by the system directories.
(this system is fully non-stop updated)

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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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