Swap going 100 mile an hour virtually freezing PC rsvg-convert

[Martin Visser]

When the problem occurs, try running " ps -ejHf" to determine what is
triggering rsvg-convert to run.

The only I can think of if you aren't explicitly running it, is some
of thumbnail creation process is iterating over a lot of icons or
drawings in SVG format that you may have created in Xara. If somehow
you created a "bad" SVG (maybe Xara crashed while saving) that makes
rsvg-convert believe that it is really huge it might be causing it to
attempt to allocate a huge amount of memory simply for the purpose of
rendering a thumbnail. (Just a guess of course ;-)  )

Martin

On Nov 9, 2007 9:50 AM, newcr <newcr at westnet.com.au> wrote:
>
>  Thanks Rapael
>
>  Whenever this problem occurred I was not using graphics (including svg)
> programs.
>
>  I did look at removing librsvg2 (I think it is) but there are too many
> dependencies and programs (that I need) would be removed (lots). Also tried
> re-install.
>
>  Side note, only real SVG program I need and use is Xara (Not sure if Gimp
> has SVG plugin). I use Gimp the most and Xara for certain things with my
> business.
>
>  Still haven't had the opportunity to confirm if rsvg-convert is the source
> of the problem yet.
>
>  The other note: Being on dial-up (have signed up for broadband a month ago
> -  whenever it comes), I have been adding a lot of programs (through
> standard package manager) with lots of partial installs because of dial-up
> drop-outs. Also another potential area I may have caused problems is trying
> to install the DVD workaround (libdvdcss2) by using scripts from a couple of
> sites like
>
> http://flavor8.com/index.php/2007/05/12/how-to-install-libdvdcss-on-ubuntu-feisty/
>  I think maybe I have caused the problems through all of this. Got no idea.
>
>
> Just wondering does anyone know of any (prefer Ubuntu easy install) image
> batch programs (eg, resize, contrast/bright, border, etc)? At the moment I
> do a lot of repetitive manual processing or reboot back to Win 98 to get
> this done.
>
>  I appreciate all this help and feedback.
>
>
>
>
>  Rapael Morcha wrote:
>  Hey newcr,
>
> Looks like a tool from librsvg package -
> "The librsvg package contains librsvg libraries and tools used to
> manipulate, convert and view Scalable Vector Graphic (SVG) images."
>
> Depends whether you are doing anything like that above (i.e., image
> conversion)
>
>
>
> If it (rsvg-convert) always does that (suck up lot of memory and freeze your
> system) and you do not use that package try removing it-
>
> raphael at f9:[~] sudo apt-get remove librsvg2-bin;
> <type root password>
>
> [librsvg2-bin includes rsvg-convert tool]
>
> If you do use that package however, consider filing a bug report at
> https://bugs.launchpad.net on librsvg2-bin. Maybe it's leaking memory it
> shouldn't. #_#
>
>
>
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