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Bug 340120 - Nautilus eats up all memories when thumnailing a large animated gif (4 MB)
Nautilus eats up all memories when thumnailing a large animated gif (4 MB)
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 134544
Product: nautilus
Classification: Core
Component: Thumbnails
2.14.x
Other All
: Normal critical
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Assigned To: Nautilus Maintainers
Nautilus Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2006-04-29 15:46 UTC by Eric Anderson
Modified: 2006-04-30 11:04 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.13/2.14



Description Eric Anderson 2006-04-29 15:46:38 UTC
Please describe the problem:
When thumbnailing a large animated gif (4 MB), Nautilus began to consume all the
memory available on my system. Of course, then my system slowed to a halt.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Download the animated gif at http://qub333.googlepages.com/deskbar-demo.gif
2. Open the directory where the gif was stored
3. Watch on top on a old tty terminal as nautilus's memory usage increases very
quickly.


Actual results:
My system is no longer usable. I must kill Nautilus and remove the problematic
file to regain a usable system. 

Expected results:
A nice thumbnail to be generated and still have a usable system.

Does this happen every time?
Yes, everytime. It was worse for me because I had the gif in my home directory.
So when I started back up after a hard shutdown Nautilus showed me my home
directory...

Other information:
Comment 1 Eric Anderson 2006-04-29 15:48:13 UTC
I know that Mozilla also has a decently large memory leak associated with viewing the same gif.
Comment 2 Sergej Kotliar 2006-04-30 11:04:59 UTC
Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find.


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