Description of problem: A colleague sent me an e-mail with two large tiff files attached. One was 13544x9576 pixels, filesize only 182 kB, the other slightly smaller. upon trying to display this message, evolution starts using 100% cpu time. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): evolution-2.6.3-1.fc5.5 How reproducible: Open e-mail with huge (in pixels) tif file Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Evolution starts using 100% CPU Expected results: Mail displayed, images not visible Additional info:
Thanks for the bug report. As of yesterday, Evolution 2.6 is no longer supported in Fedora Core 5. Can you please try again with Evolution 2.8 in Fedora Core 6?
Evolution 2.8 (on x86_64 btw) has the same problem.
Created attachment 142768 [details] 9000 x 9000 points tiff file that cannot be attached to an evolution message
Played around with large tiff files with some scribbles in it. Attached 9000x9000 point file cannot be attached to message in evolution. Evolution uses some memory for the message (but not all in the machine), and then starts to eat CPU cycles only. 8500x8500 points message can be attached without problems.
Problem still exists in Evolution 2.12.0.
Based on my investigations, the problem is not in evolution itself, but in gdk_pixbuf_scale. I added this bug to upstream against evolution [1], because there could be done some improvement. We can move this bug either against gdk or close, even closing this will not solve this. [1] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=488213
Moving upstream to the bug referenced in comment #6. Looks like there's at least a partial solution for this in 2.22.