On 1/15/07, Bastien Nocera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2007-01-15 at 10:15 -0600, Federico Mena Quintero wrote: > <snip> > > We put a call to setrlimit() in gst-office-thumbnailer, so that the > > helper convert(1) process is limited to 256 MB of memory and 5 seconds > > of CPU time. Some files do *not* get thumbnailed, of course, but this > > is better than making the machine unusable. > > Neat. I'll try and do something similar for Totem's thumbnailer (it > currently uses a 30 sec time-limit, so it would be nice to also set a > certain amount of CPU). I downloaded some guadec videos the other day to my desktop folder and t-v-t ate my ram and processor making thumbnails for 2 or 3 semi downloaded files. Since they were changing each second I imagine that this timeout was reset each time.
That means that I support your idea :). > > Cheers > > _______________________________________________ > desktop-devel-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list > _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
