Created attachment 5699 RAM-eating gif. save your work before downloading Hi, this is along standing problem with tumbler. The tumblerd process to uses huge amounts of RAM (more than 800 Mb) when thumbailing some files, like the attached animated GIF file (only 458kb). This also consumes a large percentage of IO (70% is common), and increases CPU load (about 60% on my Centrino @1.66GHz) Bugs that look related: * https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9954 * https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9231 * https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10876 * https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4955 * https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7494 This is rather serious as it * makes the system unresponsive (hard to even move the mouse cursor) due to intense swapping and IO. * is triggered by merely browsing a directory with such a file in it. * can be used to DoS a machine (simply send them that file). Tested on several machines, i386 and amd64 architectures, up to tumbler 0.1.30-1+b1 (Debian testing/unstable) Hope there's something to be done. Maybe put an arbitrary limit on the memory tumblerd is allowed to use Thanks
Still no reply on this? I've hit this bug a lot during the past month, I now always have a terminal windows open with 'killall -9 tumblerd' ready to hit enter when I browse a directory containing gif files. Please have a look at this. Disabling thumbnailing for gifs would be acceptable. Or use another thumbnailer that doesn't have this bug. Bumping importance so hopefully this gets noticed. Thanks in advance. Tumbler 0.1.30-1+b1 in Debian
Attaching the strace output of the operation: http://pastebin.com/jAk1H1Tz Steps to reproduce: * Download the example gif in a ~/test/ directory with 'wget https://bugzilla.xfce.org/attachment.cgi?id=5699 -O crash.gif' * Prepare a terminal window with 'killall -9 tumblerd' * find tumberd's pid, attach strace to it with 'strace -p $pid' (prints up to line 3 in the output) * run 'thunar ~/test/', strace prints lines starting from 4 * try to refocus the terminal window with the killall command despite furious lag, hit enter. I had an htop window displayed that showed tumblerd spiking to 63%+ of RAM usage. Unreliable as it was not refreshing.
With help from #xfce people on IRC I did a few checks to make sure it was not caused by something unrelated (FS problems, missing libs...) You can see these checks at http://pastebin.com/Pdnne7Hf
After using gdb on the tumbler binary, it ended up looping on this message: Cannot find bounds of current function The full gdb output is at http://pastebin.com/vthp1jgu Hope it helps
I no longer have this problem.