Same here. When i open this file: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/File:Image-Grand_central_Station_Outside_Night_2.jpg
in firefox.. everything is fine.. if is opened with shotwell everything fine... but if i open with eye of gnome system freezes - actually you can hardly move the mouse but you cant click nothing.. you cant even go into terminal. But with small images is no problem. I have Ubuntu 11.10 64_bit version. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to eog in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/383700 Title: eog uses too much memory Status in Eye of GNOME: New Status in “eog” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Binary package hint: eog eog trys to open very large images. If the image is too big, the system is just swaping, and it is hard to stop it. possible solutions: - eog should not open very large images - eog could create carefuly a scaled small version of the image, and shows the scaled down version To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/eog/+bug/383700/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

