GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 134544
large jpegs with small filesize eat up memory
Last modified: 2006-06-16 16:33:50 UTC
I happen to have downloaded a jpeg wich is about 10000x6000px, but highly compressed, ending in about 6MB file. Nautilus is set to thumbnail only files smaller than 10MB, so it tries with this one and eats all my 512MB RAM and swap and is very hard to kill. Although lowering the limit seems to be a quick fix, I'd like to keep my PNG files thumbnailed :/
Hmm. I'll take a stab at the correct priority and severity settings and tack the bugsquad keyword on.
We probably open up the, create the full size image, and then make that into a thumbnail. We should likely limit the size of the in-memory image we create.
I got the same problem with a 2.2 Mb GIF screencast (190 frames).
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Patch: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/nautilus-list/2006-April/msg00018.html
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The GdkPixbufLoader patch was committed and is included in Nautilus 2.15.3. All your memory consumption issues should have gone :).
FYI, the patch that was committed is similar to http://mail.gnome.org/archives/nautilus-list/2006-May/msg00049.html