Public bug reported: Affects: nautilus (Ubuntu) Severity: Normal Priority: (none set) Status: Unconfirmed
Description: Hi, I'm running AMD64 Dapper, up to date. When I'm downloading a longer video using bittorrent (bittornado client), gnome-video-thumbnailer tries, again and again, to preview the file. This results in my HDD being hit hard, and wild swings in my memory usage every 10 seconds as the process runs and re-runs. When I kill the process, all is well. I have the preview preferences in nautilus set so it should only be previewing local files under 5MB in size. The intention is to show me previews of my photos, but not waste resources previewing gigabytes of video. Especially not trying to preview the same incomplete file 10 times a minute. Is there a way to set the preferences so that it will work that way? If so, we need to make the preferences more clear. This behaviour is not as advertised. ** Attachment added: "Ram usage due to thumbnailing" http://librarian.launchpad.net/2277284/Screenshot-System%20Monitor.png -- Thumbnail settings don't work as expected https://launchpad.net/bugs/40874 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs