nautilus eating 1 CPU and doing lots of I/O

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 10:24 AM, Jeremy Messenger
<mezz.freebsd at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 1:13 AM, Kevin Oberman <rkoberman at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 10:03 PM, Kevin Oberman <rkoberman at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Since I updated nautilus a few days ago I am seeing very odd behavior.
>>>
>>> When I open a nautilus window, I see my CPUs at 20-25% load, mostly in nautilus. I/O jumps from near zero to several MBps,. It varies in the ones I tried between 4 and 16 MBps depending on the number of files (not folders). ktrace shows lots of reads returning "Resource temporarily unavailable". I also note that most of my thumbnails are not showing up, just the generic icons for the file type. I'm guessing some issue with finding, loading or generating the thumbnails.
>>>
>>> I have no idea what to look for to provide any real data or to track this.
>>
>> I just noticed this post to ports@ made earlier today pointing out the
>> problem, but not a good solution.
>> :
>> Sergio de Almeida Lenzi Tue, 19 Mar 2013 12:42:16 -0700
>>
>> Hello,,
>>
>> On update ports via svn from 2013-03-10 to today,
>> after a portmaster -a, the system (gnome2)
>> stopped to show any thumbnails..
>>
>> The main reason is that it writes the thumbnail
>> in .thumbnails/normal/xxxxxxx.png
>> but than tries to read it from .cache/thumbnails/normal/xxxxxxxxx.png
>>
>> Can some "nautilus guru"  tell me how to fix this???
>>
>> for now I create a liink in the .cache/thumbnails -> ./thumbnails  this
>> works
>> but is not a solution...
>
> That is very weird problem. Gotta figure where the .cache is at one of
> port. Must be one of kwm's recently update.

Found it, it's related with the glib20 update. See here:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=675168

I found it from in its NEWS, it's in the "Overview of changes from
GLib 2.33.2 to 2.33.3" section.

It looks like we will have to search for a better solution. By either
patch in GNOME 2 stuff or patch in glib20 to make it fallback
(compatible). The developer will not create a fallback for old stuff's
sake.


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