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[Craig McQueen <348522@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The memory usage seems to be proportional to the size of the files
copied. When I copied 370 MB of files, according to 'top' the gvfsd-
gphoto2 memory usage in RES column at the end was 420 MB. Memory is
freed when I unplug USB. So a workaround is to copy only a few 100 MB of
files, then unplug USB, then replug and resume.

I'm running Ubuntu 14.04 64-bit. Package gvfs-backends is version
1.20.1-1ubuntu1.

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Title:
  gvfsd-gphoto2 copies files to RAM (unsuitable for really large files)

Status in GVFS:
  Fix Released
Status in gvfs package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in gvfs package in Debian:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: gvfs

  Copy video files from my Canon Digital IXUS 90 IS with 16GB SD Card is a very hard problem.
  It uses about 1 or 2 times the file dimension that you are copying.

  I have 2GB of memory (1GB RAM + 1 GB SWAP) and I can't backup some
  videos because they are too big.

  Also copying files from the computer to a media device (camera,
  smartphone etc) is broken for the same reason.

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