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List:       sylpheed
Subject:    [sylpheed:24987] Re: Sylpheed crashes on large animated gif
From:       Gamera <gamera () coffeehaus ! com>
Date:       2005-05-25 10:36:40
Message-ID: 20050525123640.50ea6377.gamera () coffeehaus ! com
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On Wed, 25 May 2005 19:22:52 +0900
Hiroyuki Yamamoto <hiro-y@kcn.ne.jp> wrote:

> I've successfully opened the gif -- though the memory usage reached
> more than 400MB (768MB of memory is installed on this machine).
> 
> I suppose that gdk-pixbuf loads all of the contents of animation gifs
> on memory, so it will consume huge memory if the gif file contains lots
> of frames.


Oh I see, 256 MB of RAM here with a tiny swap. No wonder.  

Well sorry for having wasted some of your time for nothing.
Sylpheed is definitely not at fault here.

I have request the originator of the mail to provide us with a Sun Fire E25K Server as a penalty for next time. :-)

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