Evince-thumbnailer

[jrz]

This process seems to take total control of my cpu at times. Searching I saw an old post related which had SOLVED in the title, and looking it claimed the problem was related to viewing? pdf files. I opened a pdf file earlier, well over an hour ago, viewed it briefly, and closed it. System monitor continues to display "Processor: 100% in use" and the system is very slow. The post I referred to claimed SOLVED, but I don't consider "wait" to be a solution, especially when the wait is expressed in hours.
Does anyone know if there is a genuine solution to this problem, or perhaps a work around?

F UID PID PPID PRI NI VSZ RSS WCHAN STAT TTY TIME COMMAND
4 0 1 0 16 0 2908 404 - Ss ? 0:01 /sbin/init
1 0 4758 1 15 0 12212 516 - Ss ? 0:00 /usr/sbin/gdm --config=/etc/gdm/gdm-cdd.conf
5 0 4759 4758 15 0 12580 940 - S ? 0:18 /usr/sbin/gdm --config=/etc/gdm/gdm-cdd.conf
4 1000 4965 4759 17 0 76696 6084 - Ssl ? 0:01 /usr/bin/gnome-session
0 1000 5374 4965 15 0 159272 29548 - Sl ? 5:07 nautilus --no-default-window --sm-client-id default2
0 1000 19053 5374 25 0 75960 45160 - R ? 139:35 evince-thumbnailer -s 128 file:///home/joe/Desktop/Doc002.pdf

[mannheim]

A workaround is to disable thumbnailing of pdf files altogether. (This is something I did ages ago, because I find that all thumbnails of documents look pretty much indistinguishable. I prefer to see an icon.)

Anyway, if you want to, you can launch gconf-editor and navigate to /desktop/gnome/thumbnailers/application@pdf. Once there, uncheck the check-box marked "enable". This will turn off thumbnailing specifically for pdf files. Not really a "solution", I know.

[jrz]

Thank you mannheim, the CPU speed had just reduced after more than 6 hours at 100%, but I took the action you suggested, and hope that will help. I think I would prefer an icon instead of a thumbnail also as I can't really tell what the thumbnails are trying to show. I really appreciate the quick response.

[Razmear]

A thank you bump for this thread being out there.
I have a directory with about 500 PDF files and evince-thumbnailer was spiking to 100% and locking up my machine (Ubuntu 10.4, AMD X2, 2gig Ram).
Disabling solved the problem. Not a clean fix, but better than locking it up.

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[cmcanulty]

I just developed the same issue and disabled all thumbnailers but no difference, how can that be?