Re: Why is Nautilus using 38% CPU?

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Sun, 02 Sep 2012 11:54:48 -0500, Mark Allums wrote:

> On 9/2/2012 11:24 AM, Camaleón wrote:

>>>> You mean while system is idle? And it happens continously?
>>>
>>> Yes, exactly.
>>>
>>> I have a fairly beefy system, so it should be < 1% I would think.
>>
>> YOu can create a fresh new user and check if the nautilus process runs
>> stable from there.
> 
> You're right.  A test user appears to have no problem under GNOME3, full
> desktop.  Top shows no Nautilus tasks in the top 50, and ps ditto.

Curious. Whatever is making dancing your CPU cycles there has to be 
within your usual user's profile :-?

>>>> What GNOME version are you using? Nautilus should be off (not
>>>> running) since gnome-shell unless you had it configure for handling
>>>> the desktop or you manually launched it.
>>>
>>> The GNOME metapackages all say 3.0, but most of it is 3.4.  It's all
>>> Wheezy.
>>
>> Yup, Wheezy has been at 3.4 since time ago.
>>
>>>>> Is this relevant?: I'm running the 3.5-trunk kernel from
>>>>> experimental. Running it on assorted VMs with no problem.
>>>>
>>>> Hard to tell with the little info you provide :-)
>>>
>>> :) I am looking for a starting point.
>>
>> Well, you can start by saying why there's a nautilus process running in
>> your session :-)
> 
> Your guess is as good as mine.

I don't get it... I can of course make some guesses but you can confirm 
which is best :-)

Is either that..?

a/ You manually launch nautilus to browse files.

b/ You run gnome-fallback (gnome-classic), as this runs an instance of 
nautilus by default.

c/ You run gnome-shell and have the browser handling the desktop (this 
also makes nautilus to be launched on login).

d/ A mix of a/, b/ and/or c/

>> Then, are you using any extensions for gnome-shell? And what happens
>> when you login with gnome-classical instead?
> 
> 
> No extensions beyond the standard Debian features.  I run "Classic" by
> default.  I have desktop icons enabled.

(...)

Ah, okay. Then let's take b/ as valid :-). Then you can compare the 
results with gnome-shell.

I rarely enter into the fallback mode in my wheezy system, let's see how 
CPU resources is taking nautilus... (relogin) He, this is funny: I get a 
0% of CPU usage but nautilus is using 20 MiB of my ram ("res" value). In 
fact, it's listed as the top memory hungry process here.

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón