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Bug 602587 - High Nautilus memory usage (even >500 MB) with thumbnails activated
High Nautilus memory usage (even >500 MB) with thumbnails activated
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: nautilus
Classification: Core
Component: Views: All
2.28.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Nautilus Maintainers
Nautilus Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2009-11-21 18:01 UTC by Michał Gołębiowski-Owczarek
Modified: 2021-06-18 15:48 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
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Description Michał Gołębiowski-Owczarek 2009-11-21 18:01:02 UTC 
Nautilus memory usage is getting higher and higher as time passes. Especially entering a directory with a lot of multimedia causes it to grow. I assume it's a caching functionality; however, I really don't want a file manager to eat up 1/2 GB of my memory! There are more useful things I need it for.

See also: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/174809
Comment 1 Michał Gołębiowski-Owczarek 2009-11-21 18:06:00 UTC 
My zoom level is 100% so it's not needed to increase it to see a bug - it's enough to have a lot of media files browsed.
Comment 2 André Klapper 2021-06-18 15:48:16 UTC 
GNOME is going to shut down bugzilla.gnome.org in favor of gitlab.gnome.org.
As part of that, we are mass-closing older open tickets in bugzilla.gnome.org
which have not seen updates for a longer time (resources are unfortunately
quite limited so not every ticket can get handled).

If you can still reproduce the situation described in this ticket in a recent
and supported software version of Files (nautilus), then please follow
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Thank you for your understanding and your help.