Re: Nautilus freeze break request

[Lucas Rocha <lucasr gnome org>]

2009/9/18 Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>:
> There is a memory use problem in nautilus:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/204413
>
> On larger zoom levels we read the actual image files to use as
> thumbnails. However, we forgot to check that the file is an image
> before we do this, so we can accidentally start loading other types of
> files too. This is especially problematic since the thumbnail size limit
> only affects images, so these may be large files.
>
> Its not exactly a leak, as the memory will eventually be freed, but for
> very large files it can be a problem anyway.

Approval 2/2

--lucasr