Description of problem: When importing videos from USB/PTP still/video camera, gthumb causes system thrashing by trying to read the whole video into memory (hundreds of megabytes, or even several gigabytes) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gthumb-2.10.8-3.fc9.i386 gphoto2-2.4.0-10.fc9.i386 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. run gthumb --import-photos when usb/ptp camera is connected and contains a large video. Actual results: Observe huge memory allocation and thrashing. Expected results: Should copy the file without allocating gigs of RAM. Additional info: The offending code is here: gp_file_new (&file); camera_folder = remove_level_from_path (camera_path); camera_filename = file_name_from_path (camera_path); gp_camera_file_get (data->camera, camera_folder, camera_filename, GP_FILE_TYPE_NORMAL, file, data->context); After gp_file_new, "file" argument becomes of type GP_FILE_ACCESSTYPE_MEMORY. The in-memory file is then saved to disk by an extra call to gp_file_save. For movies this is invalid - they can be very large and it's illegal to expect them to fit into system memory in their entirety. Instead, "file" should be initialized to type GP_FILE_ACCESSTYPE_FD and path "local_path" and gp_camera_file_get will take care of saving it to hard drive, without an extra call to gp_file_save.
Forgot to mention - this code is in file dlg-photo-importer.c:1286.
I just hit this same problem on Fedora Core 10. I import 1 - 6 gig video files from my flash card. I only have 1 gig of memory so GThumb ends up dying because it can not fit into memory or swap. I am rather surprised that nobody else is complaining about this. gthumb-2.10.10-3.fc10.x86_64
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