Comment 10 for bug 505085

How come this has not been corrected in Lucid?

In my opinion, these values are way too high for anyone not involved with photography or graphic design: with over 40,000 items on my thumbnail cache, it took my laptop about one minute to be available for any meaningful work after logging in. This on a Core i7 system, which actually takes 20 seconds to boot the whole OS!

I just deleted all items from the thumbnail cache, and set the thumbnail-cache values at 1 day and 32 MB: I rather wait while my computer generates thumbnails on the fly, than to wait one minute every time gnome loads. My system is now back to normal.

Anyhow, I have to agree with karlrt: the real bug is g-s-d taking so long to process the cache folder. Anyways, my suggestion is to either fix g-s-d, so as to process the thumbnail folders in an efficient manner, or lower the default values for the cache dramatically. I'm so happy I finally came home after a two week work trip where I didn't have an internet connection to research on the problem or even install iotop. Ohh, and my gnome themes are not crashing randomly at boot anymore.