Re: [Nautilus-list] Memory consumption under Sol8?

[louise miller <louise miller ireland sun com>]

Glynn Foster wrote:
> 
> Darin Adler wrote:
> >
> > On Wednesday, July 18, 2001, at 03:31  PM, Nick Steel wrote:
> >
> > > If I launch Nautilus, the nautilus_2 process will use up all 1.5Gb avail
> > > ram, and then use all 2gb of available swap and the interface will never
> > > come up. The only thing I can do is kill -9 the nautilus_2 process to free
> > > up the memory.
> >
> > I don't even know what the nautilus_2 process is. But I bet that strace
> > would give you a clue about what the process is doing.
> >
> >      -- Darin
> 
> Hrm, from what I remember [and hoping that some other Sun people responsible
> can jump in here] we had to use a wrapper script around nautilus so that we
> could kill off hanging nautilus/oaf/gconf processes if/when nautilus died...

Thats right Glynn.
The nautilus_2 process is just the nautilus process. We renamed it ,
then
we put in a wrapper script, called it nautilus. Now when nautilus dies,
it brings up a dialog box and kills off hanging processes.



> 
>                                 See ya,
>                                         Glynn ;)
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