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

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Mon, 2007-01-15 at 15:06 -0500, Diego Escalante wrote:
> On 1/15/07, Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net> wrote:
> > 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).
> I downloaded some guadec videos the other day to my desktop folder and
> t-v-t ate my ram and processor making thumbnails for 2 or 3 semi
> downloaded files. Since they were changing each second I imagine that
> this timeout was reset each time.
> 
> That means that I support your idea :).

That means you need a newer version of nautilus. It should only call the
thumbnailers if the file hasn't changed for a couple of seconds (ie. the
mtime). If it doesn't do that, it's a nautilus bug. It should only call
the thumbnailer when the download is finished.

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Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>