Re: Thumbnailing speed

[Joe Shaw <joeshaw novell com>]

Hi,

Bastien Nocera wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 17:43 -0600, Hans Petter Jansson wrote:
> > This has bitten Beagle's metadata extraction a *lot* - and it's not just
> > 100% CPU bugs, it's also bugs that'll eat up all your memory, for
> > instance.
>
> Beagle's metadata extraction is in-process, the thumbnailers are
> out-of-process.

Some are in-proc, others out of proc -- like the Totem filter.  I just 
added code earlier this week to use setrlimit() to keep external 
processes from running away and moved the MS Word extractor, the one 
which gave us the biggest trouble by far, out of proc.

Joe