Gzip or Bzip still runing after cancel Button is pressed

Thanks for your bug report. This bug has been reported to the developers of the software. You can track it and make comments here: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=432965

Sames applies to extract. will comment upstream.

This is what happened to me:
1. I was trying to create a big tar.gz file from 2 GB source.
2. Progress bar doesn't show any progress show after a while I canceled it
3. I tried again creating a .zip file from the same source
4. Again, no progress, so I cancel it.
5. After a while my computer starts jamming due to out of memory (which I have 4 GB and normally max 1 GB of it is in use)
6. Then my computer starts shutting down my applications due to out of memory errors
7. I finally manage to locate the cause after logging in to command line and kill file-roller, but some data was already lost due to killed applications.

I see that this bug has been soon open for 4 years and that there are several other faults, reported to upstream which are not fixed.

Suggestions:
- Remove that application from Ubuntu.
- Or fix it
- Or rewrite it
- Or build a system which takes down applications that consume huge loads of memory before bad things start to happen. I never figured out why very small applications are killed in out-of-memory situations, instead of the one application that takes 90% of the systems memory and just keeps growing.