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Bug 334599 - Large Animated GIF's crash when nautilus attempts to generate thumbnail
Large Animated GIF's crash when nautilus attempts to generate thumbnail
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 134544
Product: nautilus
Classification: Core
Component: Thumbnails
2.14.x
Other Linux
: Normal blocker
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Assigned To: Nautilus Maintainers
Nautilus Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2006-03-15 02:18 UTC by Kevin Kubasik
Modified: 2006-04-07 13:36 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.13/2.14


Description Kevin Kubasik 2006-03-15 02:18:14 UTC 
When nautilus attempts to preview a large animated gif (provided below) it locks up for several minutes, then crashes and restarts.

http://qub333.googlepages.com/deskbar-demo.gif
Comment 1 Raphael Slinckx 2006-03-15 18:38:39 UTC 
Happens here too.
The thumbnailers eats all RAM, then starts swapping everything, the oom-killer starts killing until the thumbnailer is killed.

Somehow there should be a memory cap ?
Comment 2 Kevin Kubasik 2006-03-19 16:08:10 UTC 
Updated some severity info, as this is starting to become a serious issue with nautilus use for me, I had to move all my animated gif's into their own folder that I don't view with nautilus. Nautilus needs to gracefuly notice when thumbnailing is probably not going to happen and stop. 

However, since it handles extreamly large videos without issue, I am led to believe that this issue stems from nautilus assuming that all mimetypes image-gif are static, not animated.
Comment 3 Christian Neumair 2006-04-07 13:36:15 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 134544 ***