Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 11:30:35 -0700 From: Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com> To: Jeremy Messenger <mezz.freebsd@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD GNOME Users <gnome@freebsd.org>, Sergio Lenzi <lenzi.sergio@gmail.com> Subject: Re: nautilus eating 1 CPU and doing lots of I/O Message-ID: <CAN6yY1u-RGWzoycqKa=MXoA3tLz1=D=F=kKb1EcX7Qqa8_4UdA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CADLFttcOYYAyb3QavuCF4s-hPyTFTsYfqM3bvrMoHniTxNQ5Vg@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAN6yY1sP%2Bj4AS4f1XeaoDg5LOHachWCDVRU%2BgdRU5Hy-Sv85MA@mail.gmail.com> <CAN6yY1vXO44GVbgwu3BqMg2tdDP6CenLZCo3PFRyK9y-owx=Bw@mail.gmail.com> <CADLFttetHzf50a6nS40Q75gj0jMsJMB2tLFQVgztdagdhMN16A@mail.gmail.com> <CADLFttf%2B8HET3Z4%2B5gcL_rM6UkaQ2-eowQiNq27WySJ-Bo%2BB8Q@mail.gmail.com> <CAN6yY1uWiaJELLNjx=v5%2BSAFOV10yB6wkDaq4Ngea3ZnR1UPFw@mail.gmail.com> <CADLFttcOYYAyb3QavuCF4s-hPyTFTsYfqM3bvrMoHniTxNQ5Vg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 9:37 AM, Jeremy Messenger <mezz.freebsd@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 11:24 AM, Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com> wro= te: >> On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 9:04 AM, Jeremy Messenger >> <mezz.freebsd@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 10:24 AM, Jeremy Messenger >>> <mezz.freebsd@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 1:13 AM, Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com> w= rote: >>>>> On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 10:03 PM, Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com>= wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> Since I updated nautilus a few days ago I am seeing very odd behavio= r. >>>>>> >>>>>> 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 on= es I tried between 4 and 16 MBps depending on the number of files (not fold= ers). ktrace shows lots of reads returning "Resource temporarily unavailabl= e". I also note that most of my thumbnails are not showing up, just the gen= eric 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 th= e >>>>> 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 th= is >>>>> 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=3D675168 >>> >>> 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. >> >> Sigh. So some apps are still assuming .thumbnails and glib has moved > > Which apps? Add patch in gnome-desktop should take care if other apps > are depend on gnome-desktop. OK. I don't know enough of Gnome 2 organization to know that, so it's prett= y straight-forward. >> to 'doing the right thing" but not allowed for apps that don't yet >> know it. For nautilus it creates an endless loop of looking for the >> thumbnail in A, not finding it, calling the routines to create a new >> thumbnail which puts it in B, and then repeats forever. The CPU is >> eaten and I/O generated in making new thumbs continually. >> >> What all creates the thumbnails? If it is a single place that contains >> the location, it's not too much to fix, but finding it could be >> tricky. I'm hunting for it now in header files but there are a LOT of >> them that contain "thumbnails" and I have just started looking. >> >> For now I'm taking the easy way out by creating a symlink as Sergio >> suggested. Not the right answer, I know, but it should work. I'm also >> copying him as he posted to ports and may not read gnome@. > > Please try http://people.freebsd.org/~mezz/patch/patch-glib2_34 by put > it in the x11/gnome-desktop/files/ then reinstall it. Remove the > symlink. No symlink and the thumbs are generated and CPU and I/O are normal. Looks g= ood! Looks ready to commit. Thanks! --=20 R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer E-mail: rkoberman@gmail.com
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