Re: Beagle CPU usage (was Proposed module: tracker)

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Mon, 2007-01-15 at 10:15 -0600, Federico Mena Quintero wrote:
<snip>
> We put a call to setrlimit() in gst-office-thumbnailer, so that the
> helper convert(1) process is limited to 256 MB of memory and 5 seconds
> of CPU time.  Some files do *not* get thumbnailed, of course, but this
> is better than making the machine unusable.

Neat. I'll try and do something similar for Totem's thumbnailer (it
currently uses a 30 sec time-limit, so it would be nice to also set a
certain amount of CPU).

Cheers