Bug#1035910: caja: process gdk-pixbuf-thumbnailer uses excessive, >600MiB, of memory
Package: caja
Version: 1.24.0-1
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: cw689@Z46860.e4ward.com
Dear Maintainer,
After looking through a few directories gdk-pixbuf-thumbnailer
sucks up a lot of memory. The directories I was looking at are
in the co-existing Windows XP SP3 Home Edition installation.
I don't know which, or which types of files, could be triggering
this behaviour.
This is on a "small" machine, an msi U120 notebook/netbook with
1GB memory hardwired (i.e. can't be increased), so, a process
using this much memory causes everything to bog down. The memory
usage of this process varies over time and getting a screen shot
at the maximum usage was impossible. But, 540MiB is still well
up there. Since reportbug doesn't allow for attachments I've
placed the screen shot at:
http://chrisw.freeshell.org/caja/Screenshot%20at%202023-05-10%2014-00-27.png
top shows 1GiB of virtual memory for gdk-pixbuf-thumbnailer and
if all that is in actual use, resident or swap, then it is that
much worse.
I turned off thumbnails in caja and rebooted and the process and
problem were gone.
The thumbnails option should be turned off by default and there
should be a warning asscociated with this option until this is
fixed.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 11.7
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-22-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_CA:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages caja depends on:
ii caja-common 1.24.0-1
ii desktop-file-utils 0.26-1
ii gvfs 1.46.2-1
ii libatk1.0-0 2.36.0-2
ii libc6 2.31-13+deb11u6
ii libcairo-gobject2 1.16.0-5
ii libcairo2 1.16.0-5
ii libcaja-extension1 1.24.0-1
ii libexempi8 2.5.2-1
ii libexif12 0.6.22-3
ii libgail-3-0 3.24.24-4+deb11u3
ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.40.2-2
ii libglib2.0-0 2.66.8-1
ii libglib2.0-bin 2.66.8-1
ii libglib2.0-data 2.66.8-1
ii libgtk-3-0 3.24.24-4+deb11u3
ii libice6 2:1.0.10-1
ii libmate-desktop-2-17 1.24.1-2
ii libnotify4 0.7.9-3
ii libpango-1.0-0 1.46.2-3
ii libpangocairo-1.0-0 1.46.2-3
ii libselinux1 3.1-3
ii libsm6 2:1.2.3-1
ii libx11-6 2:1.7.2-1
ii libxml2 2.9.10+dfsg-6.7+deb11u4
ii mate-desktop 1.24.1-2
ii shared-mime-info 2.0-1
Versions of packages caja recommends:
ii gvfs-backends 1.46.2-1
Versions of packages caja suggests:
ii engrampa 1.24.1-1
pn gstreamer1.0-tools <none>
pn meld <none>
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