Re: [Nautilus-list] Excessive CPU utilization

[Rich Rudnick <nickrud citlink net>]

On Sat, 14 Jul 2001 15:35:51 George Farris wrote:
> I was having this problem too.  I logged out of GNOME, logged into a
> console and then deleted my ~/.gnome/session file.  Naultilus no longer
> uses CPU time.
> 
> On 14 Jul 2001 16:59:15 -0500, R. Steven Rainwater wrote:
> > Good to hear it's a bug. I thought this was normal for
> > Nautilus as it seems to do this on all our systems. I ran
> > strace -p and it seems to be doing the same things over 
> > and over. I've attached one complete loop of the strace
> > results (it's a 10k attachment - I hope that isn't a problem
> > for the list). I looked through the listing and it does seem to
> > be busily doing all sorts of stuff but I don't know what
> > it should be doing so maybe someone on the list can have a
> > look and tell what might be wrong. Thanks!
> > 
> > -Steve
> > 
> > On Sat, 14 Jul 2001 14:31:01 -0700, Darin Adler wrote:
> > >> I'm running Ximian Gnome with Nautilus 1.0.4 on several machines
> > >> and noticed that top shows Nautilus sucking up a good bit of CPU
> > >> time. On my PIII 800mhz, top shows Nautilus at 10-15% all of the
> > >> time (even when it shouldn't be doing anything). Worse, on a PII
> > >> 200mhz, top shows it at 35-50%. It makes the slower machine almost
> > >> unusable whereas it works great after a "killall nautilus".
> > >
> > > <...>
> > >In any case, this CPU time being sucked up by Nautilus is some kind of
> bug.
> > >  One way to begin the process of tracking it down is to use "strace -p"
> to 
> > >find out what Nautilus is doing.
> > 

I also saw 12 to 16 percent CPU usage by nautilus.  I used Session Properties
to change the style to normal, killed nautilus, restarted, and everything was
fine.