Re: Nautilus prcesses not closing

[Seth Nickell <snickell stanford edu>]

Just to clarify, what that means is that the correct memory usage for
Nautilus is only the memory listed for any one of the threads. *mumble*,
wow I really wish Linux top could be fixed somehow, I'm sure this must
be an FAQ for other projects too.

-Seth

On Fri, 2002-06-21 at 15:57, Jonathan Blandford wrote:
> Manfred Murer <maillists manfred homeip net> writes:
> 
> > I'm just thinking about switching over from KDE to Gnome. So I'm testing 
> > around a bit to see how it performs. So I found some ugly behaviours:
> > 
> > I noticed that once I opened an application's help (calendar for instance), I 
> > loose some 32 MB (!!) of RAM at once. This is not released anymore even after 
> > closing the help. Further investigation revealed that it's Nautilus starting 
> > 6 (!!) instances of itself, and thus consuming 32 MB, just to display a 
> > little help file. How can this be??
> 
> It's a thread, and thus is listed multiple times.  Note that with GNOME
> 2.0, we no longer show help in nautilus.
> 
> -Jonathan
> 
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