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Re: Nautilus load problems



Greetings,

On Sat, 18 Jan 2003, Robert Rati wrote:
> If nautilus has become really unstable, then maybe the next version will
> fix things.  Let's hope that version comes out soon. :)
Right. I used to be quite happy with it.

> What seems to make things worse is Gnome itself.  When nautilus spawns,
> it spawns as a process that should be restarted.  Somehow, when nautilus
> is run, it ends up being many processes which die and get restarted. 
> Somehow, each time it is restarted more than one process is created, so
> if you look in the session list you have an ungodly number of nautiluses
> running.  This seems to continue exponentially.  I don't know if the
> problem is Gnome or not, but I don't think Gnome is helping.  I think
> Gnome is restarting the failed process and nautilus is starting another
> process (or few) of it's own.  I'm not certain though because I haven't
> been able to tell Gnome that nautilus processes shouldn't be respawned.
You might be able to switch those nautilus processes with:
gconftool-2 --type=bool --set /apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop false

Regards,

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