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gnome-settings-daemon package

  1. Bug #505085
  2. Comment #5

Comment 5 for bug 505085

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karlrt (karlrt) wrote :

Oh, and i ran a strace-tracking, it showed me exactly the same as your log. It reads all the thumbnails.

if you look at https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=150483 and https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-settings-daemon/+bug/37643 i think there lies the problem:

in gnome-settings-daemon, they implemented a "housekeeping" plugin:

"- Added a new "housekeeping" plugin to set limits on the size and age of the
      thumbnail cache"

I think this housekeeping mechanism just goes crazy and checks my 32.000 thumbs every boottime for consistency. Perhaps someone could check if thats it? Should we reopen the old bug because their fix braught up this problem?