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Bug 537557 - Nautilus search consumes swap and memory under root rights
Nautilus search consumes swap and memory under root rights
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: nautilus
Classification: Core
Component: File Search Interface
2.22.x
Other All
: Normal critical
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Assigned To: Nautilus Maintainers
Nautilus Maintainers
Depends on: 528600
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2008-06-10 10:46 UTC by Serkan
Modified: 2010-07-07 22:57 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.21/2.22


Description Serkan 2008-06-10 10:46:28 UTC 
Please describe the problem:
If you open Nautilus with sudo or root rights and make a search, it consumes all memory and swap step by step and freeze.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Get root rights
2. Open Nautilus
3. Make a search


Actual results:
Consumes memory and swap then freeze. 

Expected results:
Find files or/and directories

Does this happen every time?
Yes.

Other information:
This bug is similar to http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=537298
Comment 1 Serkan 2008-06-10 10:48:36 UTC 
In addition to the info i can't get a stack trace as i explained on http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=537298

"I am so sorry but i can't get a stack trace with gdb. gdb does not give any
information about this. I tried it as multithreaded and non-multithreded way. 
Additionally if it takes a little bit long whole system freezes. 

By the way, I am trying to get the trace as "root". So special circumstances is
not working in here. I logged in root and tried it, there is no problem with
that. If you open nautilus with sudo or with root rights it is happening. 

Is there any other way i can get stack trace?"
Comment 2 Münir Ekinci 2008-06-10 10:58:59 UTC 
I can produce this bug, too
Comment 3 Emrah Ergin 2008-06-10 17:36:05 UTC 
I can produce this bug as well.
Comment 4 Emrah Ergin 2008-06-10 17:37:21 UTC 
System Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04
Nautilus: 2.22.3
Comment 5 Vish 2010-07-04 20:39:56 UTC 
Do you still have this problem with an up to date version of nautilus?
Comment 6 Serkan 2010-07-07 00:37:06 UTC 
I can't re-produce this bug right now.
My Nautilus version is 2.30.1
Comment 7 Cosimo Cecchi 2010-07-07 22:57:36 UTC 
Nice, let's close this as OBSOLETE; if you happen to reproduce the bug with nautilus >= 2.30, feel free to comment here, or reopen the bug. Thanks.