Hmmm... This is not looking good. So, I have 53 videos in my Videos directory. Each video is a few seconds long, around 5 MB in size each. I wipe the cache and start the gallery app, and scroll around to push requests to the thumbnailer. Then after a while, I see this in the log:
Hmmm... This is not looking good. So, I have 53 videos in my Videos directory. Each video is a few seconds long, around 5 MB in size each. I wipe the cache and start the gallery app, and scroll around to push requests to the thumbnailer. Then after a while, I see this in the log:
thumbnailer- service: [01:53:35.041] "thumbnail: /home/phablet/ Pictures/ com.ubuntu. camera/ image20150604_ 035240355. jpg (256,0): 1.853746 sec (HIT)" service: [01:53:35.066] "thumbnail: /home/phablet/ Pictures/ com.ubuntu. camera/ image20150604_ 035243108. jpg (256,0): 1.877430 sec (HIT)" service: [01:53:35.081] "thumbnail: /home/phablet/ Pictures/ com.ubuntu. camera/ image20150604_ 035217055. jpg (256,0): 1.864489 sec (HIT)"
thumbnailer-
thumbnailer-
(vs-thumb:7164): GLib-ERROR **: /build/ buildd/ glib2.0- 2.45.1/ ./glib/ gmem.c: 357: overflow allocating 4294967274*8 bytes
(vs-thumb:7152): GLib-ERROR **: /build/ buildd/ glib2.0- 2.45.1/ ./glib/ gmem.c: 357: overflow allocating 4294967274*8 bytes
(vs-thumb:7177): GLib-ERROR **: /build/ buildd/ glib2.0- 2.45.1/ ./glib/ gmem.c: 357: overflow allocating 4294967274*8 bytes
(vs-thumb:7166): GLib-ERROR **: /build/ buildd/ glib2.0- 2.45.1/ ./glib/ gmem.c: 357: overflow allocating 4294967274*8 bytes service: [01:53:35.152] "thumbnail: /home/phablet/ Pictures/ com.ubuntu. camera/ image20150604_ 035221468. jpg (256,0): 1.936395 sec (HIT)"
thumbnailer-
(vs-thumb:7170): GLib-ERROR **: /build/ buildd/ glib2.0- 2.45.1/ ./glib/ gmem.c: 357: overflow allocating 4294967274*8 bytes
(vs-thumb:7165): GLib-ERROR **: /build/ buildd/ glib2.0- 2.45.1/ ./glib/ gmem.c: 357: overflow allocating 4294967274*8 bytes service: [01:53:35.206] "thumbnail: /home/phablet/ Pictures/ com.ubuntu. camera/ image20150604_ 035215563. jpg (256,0): 1.989531 sec (HIT)"
thumbnailer-
So, something repeatedly tries to allocate 24 GB of memory. I'm not impressed :-(