Re: [Nautilus-list] 4 nautilus processes chewing up memory

[Darin Adler <darin bentspoon com>]

On 2/10/02 10:24 PM, "Darren Gould" <darren_gould hotmail com> wrote:

> I was having some huge performance issues running Gnome under RH7.2 with 64
> MB of ram.  It seems that 4 nautilus processes are taking up 60% of my
> memory resources.  Why are there 4 processes to begin with and is there any
> way I can find out where they come from?  If I kill one of these processes
> the window manager shuts down and restarts with 4 new processes.
> 
> Here is the output from top - the 15.3 is the percent of memory being used
> by each process:
> 
> 958 root       9   0  6208 4508  3848 S     0.0  15.3  0:02 nautilus
> 1023 root       9   0  6208 4508  3848 S     0.0  15.3  0:00 nautilus
> 1024 root       9   0  6208 4508  3848 S     0.0  15.3  0:00 nautilus
> 1025 root       9   0  6208 4508  3848 S     0.0  15.3  0:00 nautilus

These aren't 4 processes chewing up 60% of your memory. They are 4 threads
inside 1 process, chewing up 15% of your memory. The version of top in most
versions of Linux can't tell a thread from a process, leading to misleading
display when running programs that use threads.

On the other hand, the huge performance issues you are seeing might be due
to Nautilus using a lot of memory. There could be memory leaks and such.

    -- Darin