On 9/2/2012 1:25 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
On Sun, 2012-09-02 at 14:03 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote:
Based on the various Google results, I am thinking that Nautilus has a serious set of bugs. It uses 1G of memory, which is horrendous, but another 22G become unavailable, form memleaks or something. Also, much low level disk activity but no swapping. Weird. I think it is running because desktop icons are enabled, I think that uses Nautilus to implement.
I am going to temporarily retreat to another window manager and desktop for a while, and see if this bug gets fixed. Do a lot of Googling and follow the progress of this issue from a distance. Life's too short...
Mark, about your Nautilus problems - I gave up on Nautilus (and on
Gnome as a matter of fact) some time ago - My GUI file manager of
preference is XFE...blazingly fast but based on QT I believe not on GTK.
Perhaps not as versatile as Nautilus...but it gets the job done for me -
YMMV - but most times is use Midnight Commander...from the CLI.
On Ubuntu Studio I'm using Xfce4 with Nautilus 3.4.2 and Thunar. Nautlius doesn't need memory and doesn't need CPU resources, everything is ok here. For Debian testing, "wheezy". I experience GNOME 3 as a PITA, especially if it should emulate GNOME 2 and in the future GNOME upstream will make systemd a hard dependency, IMO this is insane, it already is insane that pulseaudio is a hard dependency. Xfce4 is similar to GNOME 2.I am looking at MATE, a fork of GNOME 2. It's still early days, but it's coming along nicely. They have a repository for Debian.
The thing I object to (besides the Nautilus thing on my machine) about GNOME3 is the incessant swooping around of the mouse. It's not economical of therbligs.
Mark