[Bug 301286] [NEW] dolphin crashes system with huge images

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Binary package hint: dolphin

If you have a real huge image a folder dolphin trys to create a
thumbnail. It allocates a lot of memory (surprise, surprise) and at some
point it starts to swap. When this point is reached your system goes
unstable and you are happy if you don't need to kill X.

Summary:
Put some real huge image in Folder open it in dolphin and press preview. I used a 105M big png.

Images to be found at
http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_detail.php?id=7100

Output of Top:
top - 14:24:35 up  3:46,  1 user,  load average: 8.40, 2.90, 1.24
Tasks: 183 total,   3 running, 179 sleeping,   0 stopped,   1 zombie
Cpu(s):  2.0%us,  4.2%sy, 12.9%ni, 12.4%id, 68.1%wa,  0.1%hi,  0.4%si,  0.0%st
Mem:   2072324k total,  2017972k used,    54352k free,     1036k buffers
Swap:  4690972k total,  1686748k used,  3004224k free,    88448k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
12256 georg     25   5 1839m 619m 5048 D   23 30.6   0:24.18 kio_thumbnail
12253 georg     25   5 1840m 598m 5072 R   21 29.6   0:14.94 kio_thumbnail
12257 georg     25   5 1839m 397m 4960 R   14 19.6   0:13.42 kio_thumbnail

** Affects: kdebase (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Incomplete

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dolphin crashes system with huge images
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/bugs/301286
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