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Bug 650690 - gnome-shell hangs / uses 99% CPU if you have a large SVG in your homedir
gnome-shell hangs / uses 99% CPU if you have a large SVG in your homedir
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: gnome-shell
Classification: Core
Component: general
3.0.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gnome-shell-maint
gnome-shell-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2011-05-20 19:13 UTC by Máirín Duffy
Modified: 2013-03-27 01:12 UTC
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Description Máirín Duffy 2011-05-20 19:13:47 UTC 
I copied an SVG from a backup drive into my Documents directory, but I never actually opened it or used it, and completely forgot about it.

My system started hanging temporarily a lot. I would go over to a tty and run top and see that gnome-shell was taking up 99%+ CPU. If I killed gnome-shell, I was able to continue my work, but it would usually happen again within a few hours.

With some help I was able to trace it to gnome-shell doing a file open on this one particular SVG file, over and over again - maybe 7 times at the same time.

Turns out, the SVG had the word 'sky' in it, and when I went to the applications overview, I mistyped sparkleshare as "sk..." and the overview started to thumbnail the 50MB svg over and over again for the recent documents area.

I think I should be able to have large SVGs in my homedir. Maybe gnome-shell, if it can't thumbnail the file in a reasonable amount of time, should just bail and put up a generic image icon for the thumbnail?

If you want a copy of the SVG I'm happy to provide it.
Comment 1 Danilo 2011-06-22 02:25:04 UTC 
I'm having similar problem...
I created some large SVG files, (as well as large Tiff files too), and since then, Gnome-Shell is losing my "favorite icons" and some Application icons randomly...
When that happens and I "type to search", Gnome-Shell freezes!

My files are inside my "Documents" folder...
Comment 2 Jean-François Fortin Tam 2012-10-25 21:13:29 UTC 
Hi folks, does this still happen with 3.6?
Comment 3 Máirín Duffy 2012-10-25 21:18:16 UTC 
I'm still on 3.4 (Fedora 17) but if someone has 3.6 this should be easy to try to reproduce.
Comment 4 Florian Müllner 2012-10-25 21:30:41 UTC 
Hmm, but you can reproduce in F17? Recent items were already removed in 3.4, so if this is still an issue, it's probably related to the gnome-documents search provider (and unlikely to be fixed in 3.6).
Comment 5 Máirín Duffy 2012-10-25 22:10:21 UTC 
I can't seem to reproduce it in F17. Should I be concerned though that no SVGs at all pop up under the Documents results in the shell search?
Comment 6 Florian Müllner 2012-10-25 23:05:47 UTC 
Gah - gnome-documents probably does not consider SVGs documents, sorry I didn't think of that. In 3.6 it should show up as result from nautilus, but that obviously requires F18 to test :-(
Comment 7 Tobias Mueller 2013-03-27 01:12:58 UTC 
Let's assume this one to be OBSOLETE by now. Please reopen if this is not the case.