hildon-thumbnailerd? Run like crazy...
 

Hello

I notice that after some reboot (or crash, not sure) and after a usb mass-storage disconnect, the process hildon-thumbnailerd run for some time(3~5 mins) at full cpu. This impact the battery life..

I notice that during this period, the thumbnails of the galery are reconstructed.

So why are the thumbnails reconstructed? is there no cache mechanism?? is it a bug...

Gilles

Re: hildon-thumbnailerd? Run like crazy...
 

I noticed the same. Would like to get rid of it.

Re: hildon-thumbnailerd? Run like crazy...
 

I sometimes use the media player with fm transmitter in my car and it sometimes struggles to play music! cutting out ogten. It did this today and when i did a "top" can see that hildon-thumbnailerd is top of the list for most of the time. Also image-viewer! which is odd as i haven't viewed any images for some time.

Havn't re-booted in a while and not sure what triggers these to start up.

I do have a lot (a few thousand) of my photos on the phone all re-sized to 800x480.

Re: hildon-thumbnailerd? Run like crazy...
 

same thing happened to me. after using phone on mass storage mode but i didint put anything to it. Tracker process and also this thumbnailer went totally crazy and went on for couple of minutes.

.edit
If you search bugzilla you will notice that there is quite many issues probably related to this so let's see what happens after 1.2 update.

Re: hildon-thumbnailerd? Run like crazy...
 

Edit file "/home/user/.config/tracker/tracker.cfg" to avoid directories with your movies.

Re: hildon-thumbnailerd? Run like crazy...
 

There is a cache. But if you unmount device and do something which changes file/directory dates it can trigger tracker.

Actually, it may not process your files long time. But if you start system media player it would start thumbnailer tracker daemon.

BTW, there is some bug in it which may cause a huge CPU consumption during tracking of unknown video formats (HD, I believe) - not sure about photos. It should be fixed in PR1.2

Re: hildon-thumbnailerd? Run like crazy...
 

have you tried tracker cfg? gui prog for setting which directories to watch or ignore, has options for speeding up indexing or turning it off which may help. but i havent tried it all once it filled my needs. think its in dev repo's (um obligatory warning- dev repo apps can kill ur phone, ur dog and ur granny, use at ur own risk)