[Bug 994383] Re: icoutils wrestool takes up all remaining ram

[Chetan Chauhan]

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 614918 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/614918

I would like to add some information to this bug report. I had a similar issue recently but one critical thing I noticed was that the issue didn't seem to be because of winderz .exe files themselves.
My root partition had become full (0 disk space free) & during that time it is possible there is a race condition in wrestool that causes it to keep trying to create thumbnails files and fail due to no free space. During that time wrestool was using more than 1GB RAM for each instance, but CPU use wasn't too high.
I deleted the files and haven't encountered the issue ever since again. Unfortunately I don't have any trace/debug reports at hand of the event.

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Title:
  icoutils wrestool takes up all remaining ram

Status in icoutils package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Whenever I go to a specific windows directory, wrestool instantly
  takes up all of my remaining ram and make my desktop unsable. My
  folder has games, movies, pictures, and installers.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
  Package: icoutils 0.29.1-2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-24.38-generic-pae 3.2.16
  Uname: Linux 3.2.0-24-generic-pae i686
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu7
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Thu May  3 22:38:20 2012
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release i386 (20120423)
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: icoutils
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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