On Tue, 2005-10-04 at 23:24 +0100, Henry S. Thompson wrote: > Probably - I wasn't aware Beagle was vulnerable in this way -- where > can I find out more about 'objectionable' files?
Sometimes files that are corrupted or malformed can trigger bugs in the filters, causing us to consume more memory and/or CPU than we'd like. This can also happens with certain types of extremely large files, and is usually a problem with the more complex file formats. For example, indexing very large (i.e. 500 page) Word document tends to cause a nasty spike in CPU usage, and very large HTML files (like auto-generated tables with thousands of rows) require a lot of memory to index. These sorts of things are generally related to not-easily-fixable issues with third-party libraries that we use to process these file formats. But even if they aren't easily fixable, we'd like to try. If you have a document that causes these sorts of problems, please let us know. Offending documents can be attached to bug reports at bugzilla.gnome.org, or can be e-mailed directly to us if they contain private/sensitive information. -J _______________________________________________ Dashboard-hackers mailing list Dashboard-hackers@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dashboard-hackers