eog takes a lot of CPU to start

[Laurent Bonnaud]

Hi,

eog is very slow to start, more than 3 times slower, compared to other image viewers (eom for instance).

Here is a time measurement that demonstrates the problem:

$ time eog P1024037.jpg

real 0m3.824s
user 0m3.391s
sys 0m0.082s

$ time eom P1024037.jpg

real 0m1.025s
user 0m0.588s
sys 0m0.068s

Notice how the "user" time, which measures CPU usage, is much higher than in eom.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 21.04
Package: eog 40.0-1
Uname: Linux 5.11.11-051111-lowlatency x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu61
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
CurrentDesktop: KDE
Date: Sat Apr 3 12:33:50 2021
SourcePackage: eog
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Laurent Bonnaud (laurent-bonnaud)]

The same problem existed in groovy, but not focal.

[Laurent Bonnaud (laurent-bonnaud)]

This problem no longer exists in Ubuntu 21.10.