[Xfce-bugs] [XFCE 0000296]: big backdrop .list files cause xfce-mcs-manage to use way, way too much memory

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The following bug requires your FEEDBACK.
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http://bugs.xfce.org/view_bug_page.php?f_id=0000296
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Reporter:                   indigoid
Handler:                    
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Project:                    XFCE
Bug ID:                     0000296
Category:                   general
Reproducibility:            always
Severity:                   major
Priority:                   low
Status:                     feedback
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Date Submitted:             2004-08-15 18:59 GMT
Last Modified:              2004-08-29 00:03 GMT
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Summary:                    big backdrop .list files cause xfce-mcs-manage to use way, way too much memory
Description: 
I made up (via find -name '*.jpg' >> foo.list) a .list file with about 3500
biggish images in it.  Pressed the edit button.  Waited.  Disk activity
gets worse and worse.  Out of memory.  Oops, I won't try that again :-(
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 dannym - 2004-08-15 19:13 GMT 
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ouch...
which xfce version is it ?

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 indigoid - 2004-08-15 19:27 GMT 
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4.0.5.  Didn't see any previous reports for such a bug, though.

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 kelnos - 2004-08-19 17:57 GMT 
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i don't use an image list, so i haven't hit this.  there are definitely
some performance issues with image list handling that i need to resolve,
but i'm not so sure that they'll be backported to the 4.0.x branch.

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 indigoid - 2004-08-20 15:55 GMT 
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Yep.  I don't think that the aforementioned behaviour is a bug, as such,
but it sure does use way more memory than I expected it to.  It seems to
work ok with much smaller lists.