gst-thumbnail freeze the system

[Steffen Kluge]

On Fri, 2005-05-06 at 14:25 +0100, Sean O Sullivan wrote:
> The_Eye_In_The_Sky wrote:
> >The problem I notice lately is that my systems is crawling if I tried to
> >open that folder containing all the DivX movies. When I check all the
> >process, the "gst-thumbnail" can take almost more than 90% of CPU cycles
> >to create the thumbnails, making everything become unbearably slow. Is
> >there a way to reduce this?
> >
> Edit naututils options, and set it not to display thumbnails.

You don't have to disable thumbnails outright. If run run
nautilus-file-management-properties you'll find (in the Preview tab) an
option to limit the size of files for which previews (thumbnails) are
generated. The default is 3MB, I believe.

Cheers
Steffen.

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