Bug#383662: nautilus: Nautilus use 100% cpu when processing gif

[Sven Arvidsson]

> When I create an animated gif with byzanz
> and nautilus enter directory with that file.
> It uses 100% cpu and make everything so slow that desktop became
> unuseable. Killing it takes about 5min. Then everything is back to normal.
> I guess it's because someking of bug in making thumb from gif and might loops somewhere.

I can reproduce this easy. A screen recording in fullscreen (1280x1024) results in a file that 
brings my system to it's knees.

However, this isn't a problem specific to Nautilus, it's one of the thumbnailers. I'm not 
sure which one is the default, but both eog and gthumb gives the same results as above.
MPlayer, by comparison, crashes on the file.

So this is either a bug in the above programs handling of large resolution GIF files, or a bug
in byzanz itself. 

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Cheers,
Sven Arvidsson
http://www.whiz.se
PGP Key ID 760BDD22

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