Nemo content search - fills all ram

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
c
Domain
desktop, search

Research direction

No file or test is named. Start by reproducing Nemo's Content Search against a large Home directory on the reported versions, then trace the search path to identify where memory grows. Done means the search no longer exhausts RAM and the fix has a regression check for this case.

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Description

BUG
Distribution

current LMDE6 & Ubu - LM22

Package version

6.2.9 on both

Graphics hardware in use

Lmde: Intel Corporation CoffeeLake-S GT2 [UHD Graphics 630] & /Ubu: an old amd saphire

Frequency

Always

Bug description

Hi, every time i do a (personal number) Content Search with Nemo in Home directory or Docs (no other apps runing) the RAM starts to fill up to maximum till PC stops responding. (it also happened in previsious versions LM & LMDE - than i used recoll wich i dont prefer)
!
(in the screen capture below i closed Cinnamon before it locked my pc)
Captură de ecran din 2024-10-19 03-29-40

Steps to reproduce

simply do a Content Search with Nemo in Home directory - too much files maybe ? :)

Expected behavior

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Additional information

maybe an Optional file indexer AddOn / Nemo (like tracker/baloo) - would be better for someone managing lots of docs/files.
Thank u all LM Team !
Captură de ecran din 2024-10-19 04-42-20

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