processor at 100%

[Alan McKinnon]

On Tuesday, 7 March 2006 09:34, Ed Fletcher wrote:

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> I've been getting something that top shows as "gnome-video-thu",
> whatever that is, using 85% of resources.  

gnome-video-thumbnailer

> I've googled it without 
> getting anything meaningful.  I suspect that it is abbreviated by
> top's limited column width.  Cybe R. Wizard suggested gps instead
> of top. I've installed it (looks pretty good) and I'll see what gps
> says the next time it happens.

It's a link to totem-video-thumbnailer which nautilus automatically 
uses to generate thumbnails of video clips (according to the man 
page). I think you'll have to do a 'ps axf' when this happens next 
and track down exactly what it's doing, chances are totem is getting 
stuck on a huge/faulty video file

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Alan McKinnon
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