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GUTSY: nautilus CPU killer

Bug #157456 reported by obobu84 on 2007-10-26

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	nautilus (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Medium	Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Binary package hint: nautilus

after a while ubuntu is running (usually a few hours) nautilus stops showing up (both invoked graphically or from command line). So i run "top" to discover that nautilus is asking for 97-98% CPU.
I can post a screenshot of "top" output if you care. This happens often (every time i run ubuntu) and the process seems to be accellerated if i run NetBeans or Eclipse (but not ArgoUML or Tomcat or appletviewer for example). Though, I don't think Java is the problem because i can test on a minimal installation that Java works fine. The same happens on two machines i use, one is a AMD64, the other a Core 2 Duo (x86 this time).

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obobu84 (lucaborzani) wrote on 2007-10-26:

"top" output Edit (174.6 KiB, image/png)

here the "top" output

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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote on 2007-11-20:

Thanks for your report, can you see if a nautilus-debug.txt file located at your home is being written while you're experience that problem?

Changed in nautilus:
assignee:	nobody → desktop-bugs
importance:	Undecided → Medium
status:	New → Incomplete

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obobu84 (lucaborzani) wrote on 2007-11-20: Re: [Bug 157456] Re: GUTSY: nautilus CPU killer

yes, the file now is about 16Mb. but it doesn't give any usefull information. just the same line that repeats over and over:

debug log dumped due to signal 11

often different instances of nautilus runs concurrently (but hiddenly) and i have to give a "killall nautilus" in order to lanch it again

On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 15:53:37 -0000
Pedro Villavicencio <email address hidden> wrote:

> Thanks for your report, can you see if a nautilus-debug.txt file located
> at your home is being written while you're experience that problem?
>
> ** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu)
> Importance: Undecided => Medium
> Assignee: (unassigned) => Ubuntu Desktop Bugs (desktop-bugs)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>
> --
> GUTSY: nautilus CPU killer
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/157456
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> of the bug.

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Luca Borzani <email address hidden>

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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote on 2007-11-20:

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find.