[Xfce-bugs] [Bug 9231] tumblerd uses all available I/O bandwidth

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Patrick May <dusthillresident at gmail.com> changed:

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--- Comment #23 from Patrick May <dusthillresident at gmail.com> ---
The description of this bug matches a bug I've been experiencing, so I'm
assuming it's the same issue. In my case, after sending a file to the recycle
bin with thunar, my hard disk light goes on and stays on for a long time (tens
of minutes).

Checking what's going on with 'lsof', it seems that tumblerd is reading through
the files in the ~/.thumbnails/normal directory in sequence.
I haven't emptied the thumbnails folder since 2013, and there's 4.7G of
thumbnails in the folder, which explains why tumblerd takes a long time to go
through them all.

I will probably empty the thumbnails folder. Anyway, this seems like a bug that
needs fixing, since it's quite resource expensive to read through all the files
in the thumbnails folder every time a file is deleted, and it could consume a
lot of battery life on laptops or portable devices.

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Details about my system: 
Debian 8 (stable)
tumbler version: 0.1.30-1+b1 (according to 'apt-cache show tumbler')

Steps to reproduce:

1. open thunar
2. right click a file in the home directory (as an example), click 'move to
wastebasket'
3. observe these effects:
 * the hard disk light coming on and staying on
 * iotop reports that tumblerd is reading data
 * lsof reports that tumblerd is reading files from ~/.thumbnails/normal

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