GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 521721
Tiff thumbnailing causes nautilus 30sec hangs, major slowness and 100% cpu utilisation
Last modified: 2008-04-17 13:07:29 UTC
Please describe the problem: Nautilus has major problems viewing directories of tiff files. It hangs and is otherwise dreadfully slow even on high performance hardware with lots of RAM. This is a serious problem for business users like myself who have a large number of tiff scans (paperless office). Steps to reproduce: Steps to Reproduce: 1. Make a directory 2. Save http://www.aaa.net.au/campbell/tt.tif into the directory as tt.tif 3. Run this little script to make another 99 copies of the file: a=1; while [ $a -lt 100 ]; do cp tt.tif tt$a.tif; a=`expr $a + 1`; done 4. Now view the directory with nautilus and observe the awful slowness 5. Now change the view to list view and observe how dreadful the slowness is 6. Monitor CPU utilisation and watch it up at 100% 7. Also check scrollbar performance Actual results: Dreadful slowness / unusability Expected results: Normal thumbnailing and reasonable performance Does this happen every time? yes Other information: This may boil down to something with libtiff but I'm not sure.
I am using Fedora 8.
This may be related to http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=142428
Yes, marking as duplicate of bug 142428. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 142428 ***