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gvfsd-trash fills up memory (uses about 1 GB) if Trash contains thousands of files

Bug #1798828 reported by Mantas Kriaučiūnas
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Bug Description

gvfsd-trash fills up memory (uses about 1 GB) if Trash contains thousands of files (I had ~8000)

I noticed this on Ubuntu 16.04 64-bit with GNOME Shell installed:
~$ ps aux |grep -i trash
uni023 1910 6.2 20.0 1541900 789352 ? Sl 12:53 10:11 /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfsd-trash --spawner :1.4 /org/gtk/gvfs/exec_spaw/0

Problem can be "solved" by emptying Trash bin.

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Mantas Kriaučiūnas (mantas)
description: updated
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Mantas Kriaučiūnas (mantas) wrote :

Bug #1558768 can be related, but that bug is abotu high CPU usage

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in gvfs (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Humphrey van Polanen Petel (hpvpp) wrote :

Ubuntu LTS 16.04.6

118K files in trash
gvfs-trash consumes both CPUs and 100% of available memory

"empty trash" goes into prepare phase, but nothing appears to happen, presumably because of the large number of files, so I closed the window by clicking the <x>

rm -rf ~/.local/share/Trash/*

nautilus window on trash:/// goes dark for a long time, but eventually comes back to show Trash to be empty

opening the Trash icon (on the on the launch bar) shows it to be empty and both <restore> and <empty> buttons are greyed out, but the Trash icon still shows 'filled'

(yes, I think Bug #1558768 is about the same problem)

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Humphrey van Polanen Petel (hpvpp) wrote :

after reboot the Trash icon shows empty

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Humphrey van Polanen Petel (hpvpp) wrote :

reported upstream at https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/233169

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Humphrey van Polanen Petel (hpvpp) wrote :

gitlab closed the issue as not belonging there

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Humphrey van Polanen Petel (hpvpp) wrote :

reported upstream at https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gvfs/-/issues/503

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Humphrey van Polanen Petel (hpvpp) wrote :

upstream replied

    Ubuntu LTS 16.04.6

@humphrey.vanpolanenpetel That is four year old software. Please first test this with a recent GNOME version (3.36) before reporting software bugs to GNOME's issue tracker

I thought Xenial, i.e. 16.04, is still being maintained -- perhaps not so?

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