RAM rapidly filling when mounting a partition

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Edit: Solution:
With the help of @freggel.doe , @linux-aarhus , @Mirdarthos , and @Teo we concluded that the RAM was rapidly being eaten up due to thumbnail indexing behaviors when mounting the drive, but it still seemed like an incredibly excessive amount of RAM. @scotty65 recalled seeing a similar issue where webp files have a thumbnail generated for every single image. I did happen to recently place a webp file on that drive, and it was the culprit. Thank you so much everyone for your help! <3

Hey guys. I hope youā€™re well today.

For some reason, one of my many hard drives or solid state drivesā€¦when I mount a specific partition on it, my RAM goes crazy.

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It only seems to be with one specific partition as far as I can tell.

Some possibly relevant information:
Manjaro Gnome
4TB WD HDD (Internal)(ā€œBlackā€)
3TB Partition (500gb free in that partition) EXT4, the back 3TB, not the front. I have also had this drive partition liked this for a couple years and havenā€™t changed it (no issues previously)
Videos and unplayed video games on the partition.
That partition is supposed to mount automatically on boot. Set up via Disks

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Swap is NOT located on that physical drive (different HDD)
Again, drive is supposed to auto mount at startup. And when I pull up my drives on the file system, I CAN see the allocated space listed and it does not ask me for my password. But when I click on the partition and it starts indexing or whatever, thatā€™s when the RAM starts to fill rapidly.

I am NOT very terminal or savvy with much of these highly technical points. Feel free to make your advice very dumbed down.

Thanks again in advance.

Edit: Ah yeah. Meant to say. It eventually fills all the swap, too, and the computer crashes/freezes. Within a couple minutes.

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Iā€™m not a Gnome user but one thing comes to mind: is there an (automatic) indexing process running for this mount point? Perhaps it might be excluded manually.

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Hi @MrDaisyBates,

This might not be what you want to hear, but it sounds like the drive is failing. Best would be to check it.

For this weā€™d need to work on the command-line. I know you donā€™t like it, but

  1. I donā€™t know how else to do this; and
  2. itā€™s easier and better to work with text on the Forum.

So, open a terminal, and execute the following:

sudo smarttctl --all </drive/path>

Where:
</drive/path> is, you guessed it, the path to your drive. For example /dev/sda or /dev/nvme0n1.

and provide the output here, then.

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Hey, @Mirdarthos ! Thank you for such a comprehensive reply.

Unfortunately, my terminal said ā€œsmarttctl command not foundā€ and I didnā€™t see it listed in the repository at first glance. Because you suggested the hard drive health, I did open Disks and check this in case it helps some how.

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Edit: I also ran some kind of reading benchmark. There is a ā€œwriteā€ one also, but I didnā€™t run it.

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Second Edit: Ah. Itā€™s part of a package called SmartMonTools or something and there was a small typo in your command. I did figure it out. As far as the data you requested:

 ļŒ’ ī‚° ļ€• ~ ī‚° sudo smarttctl --all </dev/sdc2>                                ī‚² āœ” 
zsh: parse error near `\n'
 ļŒ’ ī‚° ļ€• ~ ī‚° sudo smarttctl --all /dev/sdc2                                ī‚² 1 āœ˜ 
[sudo] password for hattivatti: 
sudo: smarttctl: command not found
 ļŒ’ ī‚° ļ€• ~ ī‚° sudo smartctl --all /dev/sdc2                          ī‚² 1 āœ˜ ī‚² 3s ļ‰’ 
[sudo] password for hattivatti: 
smartctl 7.4 2023-08-01 r5530 [x86_64-linux-6.6.19-1-MANJARO] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-23, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family:     Western Digital Blue
Device Model:     WDC WD40EZRZ-00WN9B0
Serial Number:    WD-WCC4E0ZRPJVC
LU WWN Device Id: 5 0014ee 20cd343cc
Firmware Version: 80.00A80
User Capacity:    4 000 787 030 016 bytes [4,00 TB]
Sector Sizes:     512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical
Rotation Rate:    5400 rpm
Device is:        In smartctl database 7.3/5528
ATA Version is:   ACS-2 (minor revision not indicated)
SATA Version is:  SATA 3.0, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s)
Local Time is:    Thu Mar 21 11:06:20 2024 EET
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED

General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status:  (0x82)	Offline data collection activity
					was completed without error.
					Auto Offline Data Collection: Enabled.
Self-test execution status:      (   0)	The previous self-test routine completed
					without error or no self-test has ever 
					been run.
Total time to complete Offline 
data collection: 		(52020) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities: 			 (0x7b) SMART execute Offline immediate.
					Auto Offline data collection on/off support.
					Suspend Offline collection upon new
					command.
					Offline surface scan supported.
					Self-test supported.
					Conveyance Self-test supported.
					Selective Self-test supported.
SMART capabilities:            (0x0003)	Saves SMART data before entering
					power-saving mode.
					Supports SMART auto save timer.
Error logging capability:        (0x01)	Error logging supported.
					General Purpose Logging supported.
Short self-test routine 
recommended polling time: 	 (   2) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time: 	 ( 520) minutes.
Conveyance self-test routine
recommended polling time: 	 (   5) minutes.
SCT capabilities: 	       (0x7035)	SCT Status supported.
					SCT Feature Control supported.
					SCT Data Table supported.

SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAG     VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE      UPDATED  WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
  1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate     0x002f   200   200   051    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
  3 Spin_Up_Time            0x0027   203   172   021    Pre-fail  Always       -       6850
  4 Start_Stop_Count        0x0032   091   091   000    Old_age   Always       -       9492
  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   200   200   140    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
  7 Seek_Error_Rate         0x002e   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   080   080   000    Old_age   Always       -       14739
 10 Spin_Retry_Count        0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
 11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
 12 Power_Cycle_Count       0x0032   095   095   000    Old_age   Always       -       5545
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       264
193 Load_Cycle_Count        0x0032   169   169   000    Old_age   Always       -       94507
194 Temperature_Celsius     0x0022   122   103   000    Old_age   Always       -       30
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable   0x0030   200   200   000    Old_age   Offline      -       0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate   0x0008   200   200   000    Old_age   Offline      -       0

SMART Error Log Version: 1
No Errors Logged

SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
No self-tests have been logged.  [To run self-tests, use: smartctl -t]

SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1
 SPAN  MIN_LBA  MAX_LBA  CURRENT_TEST_STATUS
    1        0        0  Not_testing
    2        0        0  Not_testing
    3        0        0  Not_testing
    4        0        0  Not_testing
    5        0        0  Not_testing
Selective self-test flags (0x0):
  After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.
If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.

The above only provides legacy SMART information - try 'smartctl -x' for more

Third edit: It suggested smartctl -x, so I did it in case it somehow helps.

 ļŒ’ ī‚° ļ€• ~ ī‚° sudo smartctl -x /dev/sdc2                                                                                                                                                                       ī‚² 1 āœ˜ 
smartctl 7.4 2023-08-01 r5530 [x86_64-linux-6.6.19-1-MANJARO] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-23, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family:     Western Digital Blue
Device Model:     WDC WD40EZRZ-00WN9B0
Serial Number:    WD-WCC4E0ZRPJVC
LU WWN Device Id: 5 0014ee 20cd343cc
Firmware Version: 80.00A80
User Capacity:    4 000 787 030 016 bytes [4,00 TB]
Sector Sizes:     512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical
Rotation Rate:    5400 rpm
Device is:        In smartctl database 7.3/5528
ATA Version is:   ACS-2 (minor revision not indicated)
SATA Version is:  SATA 3.0, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s)
Local Time is:    Thu Mar 21 11:10:48 2024 EET
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled
AAM feature is:   Unavailable
APM feature is:   Unavailable
Rd look-ahead is: Enabled
Write cache is:   Enabled
DSN feature is:   Unavailable
ATA Security is:  Disabled, frozen [SEC2]
Wt Cache Reorder: Enabled

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED

General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status:  (0x82)	Offline data collection activity
					was completed without error.
					Auto Offline Data Collection: Enabled.
Self-test execution status:      (   0)	The previous self-test routine completed
					without error or no self-test has ever 
					been run.
Total time to complete Offline 
data collection: 		(52020) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities: 			 (0x7b) SMART execute Offline immediate.
					Auto Offline data collection on/off support.
					Suspend Offline collection upon new
					command.
					Offline surface scan supported.
					Self-test supported.
					Conveyance Self-test supported.
					Selective Self-test supported.
SMART capabilities:            (0x0003)	Saves SMART data before entering
					power-saving mode.
					Supports SMART auto save timer.
Error logging capability:        (0x01)	Error logging supported.
					General Purpose Logging supported.
Short self-test routine 
recommended polling time: 	 (   2) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time: 	 ( 520) minutes.
Conveyance self-test routine
recommended polling time: 	 (   5) minutes.
SCT capabilities: 	       (0x7035)	SCT Status supported.
					SCT Feature Control supported.
					SCT Data Table supported.

SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAGS    VALUE WORST THRESH FAIL RAW_VALUE
  1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate     POSR-K   200   200   051    -    0
  3 Spin_Up_Time            POS--K   203   172   021    -    6850
  4 Start_Stop_Count        -O--CK   091   091   000    -    9492
  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   PO--CK   200   200   140    -    0
  7 Seek_Error_Rate         -OSR-K   200   200   000    -    0
  9 Power_On_Hours          -O--CK   080   080   000    -    14739
 10 Spin_Retry_Count        -O--CK   100   100   000    -    0
 11 Calibration_Retry_Count -O--CK   100   100   000    -    0
 12 Power_Cycle_Count       -O--CK   095   095   000    -    5545
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count -O--CK   200   200   000    -    264
193 Load_Cycle_Count        -O--CK   169   169   000    -    94507
194 Temperature_Celsius     -O---K   122   103   000    -    30
196 Reallocated_Event_Count -O--CK   200   200   000    -    0
197 Current_Pending_Sector  -O--CK   200   200   000    -    0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable   ----CK   200   200   000    -    0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    -O--CK   200   200   000    -    0
200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate   ---R--   200   200   000    -    0
                            ||||||_ K auto-keep
                            |||||__ C event count
                            ||||___ R error rate
                            |||____ S speed/performance
                            ||_____ O updated online
                            |______ P prefailure warning

General Purpose Log Directory Version 1
SMART           Log Directory Version 1 [multi-sector log support]
Address    Access  R/W   Size  Description
0x00       GPL,SL  R/O      1  Log Directory
0x01           SL  R/O      1  Summary SMART error log
0x02           SL  R/O      5  Comprehensive SMART error log
0x03       GPL     R/O      6  Ext. Comprehensive SMART error log
0x06           SL  R/O      1  SMART self-test log
0x07       GPL     R/O      1  Extended self-test log
0x09           SL  R/W      1  Selective self-test log
0x10       GPL     R/O      1  NCQ Command Error log
0x11       GPL     R/O      1  SATA Phy Event Counters log
0x80-0x9f  GPL,SL  R/W     16  Host vendor specific log
0xa0-0xa7  GPL,SL  VS      16  Device vendor specific log
0xa8-0xb6  GPL,SL  VS       1  Device vendor specific log
0xb7       GPL,SL  VS      39  Device vendor specific log
0xbd       GPL,SL  VS       1  Device vendor specific log
0xc0       GPL,SL  VS       1  Device vendor specific log
0xc1       GPL     VS      93  Device vendor specific log
0xe0       GPL,SL  R/W      1  SCT Command/Status
0xe1       GPL,SL  R/W      1  SCT Data Transfer

SMART Extended Comprehensive Error Log Version: 1 (6 sectors)
No Errors Logged

SMART Extended Self-test Log Version: 1 (1 sectors)
No self-tests have been logged.  [To run self-tests, use: smartctl -t]

SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1
 SPAN  MIN_LBA  MAX_LBA  CURRENT_TEST_STATUS
    1        0        0  Not_testing
    2        0        0  Not_testing
    3        0        0  Not_testing
    4        0        0  Not_testing
    5        0        0  Not_testing
Selective self-test flags (0x0):
  After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.
If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.

SCT Status Version:                  3
SCT Version (vendor specific):       258 (0x0102)
Device State:                        Active (0)
Current Temperature:                    30 Celsius
Power Cycle Min/Max Temperature:     30/31 Celsius
Lifetime    Min/Max Temperature:     14/49 Celsius
Under/Over Temperature Limit Count:   0/0
Vendor specific:
01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

SCT Temperature History Version:     2
Temperature Sampling Period:         1 minute
Temperature Logging Interval:        1 minute
Min/Max recommended Temperature:      0/60 Celsius
Min/Max Temperature Limit:           -41/85 Celsius
Temperature History Size (Index):    478 (404)

Index    Estimated Time   Temperature Celsius
 405    2024-03-21 03:13    29  **********
 ...    ..(130 skipped).    ..  **********
  58    2024-03-21 05:24    29  **********
  59    2024-03-21 05:25    30  ***********
 ...    ..( 12 skipped).    ..  ***********
  72    2024-03-21 05:38    30  ***********
  73    2024-03-21 05:39    31  ************
 ...    ..(  3 skipped).    ..  ************
  77    2024-03-21 05:43    31  ************
  78    2024-03-21 05:44    30  ***********
 ...    ..(  2 skipped).    ..  ***********
  81    2024-03-21 05:47    30  ***********
  82    2024-03-21 05:48     ?  -
  83    2024-03-21 05:49    31  ************
  84    2024-03-21 05:50    31  ************
  85    2024-03-21 05:51    31  ************
  86    2024-03-21 05:52     ?  -
  87    2024-03-21 05:53    31  ************
  88    2024-03-21 05:54    30  ***********
  89    2024-03-21 05:55    30  ***********
  90    2024-03-21 05:56    30  ***********
  91    2024-03-21 05:57     ?  -
  92    2024-03-21 05:58    31  ************
 ...    ..(  2 skipped).    ..  ************
  95    2024-03-21 06:01    31  ************
  96    2024-03-21 06:02    30  ***********
 ...    ..( 24 skipped).    ..  ***********
 121    2024-03-21 06:27    30  ***********
 122    2024-03-21 06:28     ?  -
 123    2024-03-21 06:29    30  ***********
 ...    ..( 16 skipped).    ..  ***********
 140    2024-03-21 06:46    30  ***********
 141    2024-03-21 06:47    31  ************
 142    2024-03-21 06:48    30  ***********
 ...    ..(207 skipped).    ..  ***********
 350    2024-03-21 10:16    30  ***********
 351    2024-03-21 10:17     ?  -
 352    2024-03-21 10:18    23  ****
 353    2024-03-21 10:19    23  ****
 354    2024-03-21 10:20    24  *****
 355    2024-03-21 10:21    24  *****
 356    2024-03-21 10:22    25  ******
 ...    ..(  3 skipped).    ..  ******
 360    2024-03-21 10:26    25  ******
 361    2024-03-21 10:27    26  *******
 ...    ..(  2 skipped).    ..  *******
 364    2024-03-21 10:30    26  *******
 365    2024-03-21 10:31    27  ********
 ...    ..(  3 skipped).    ..  ********
 369    2024-03-21 10:35    27  ********
 370    2024-03-21 10:36    28  *********
 ...    ..( 18 skipped).    ..  *********
 389    2024-03-21 10:55    28  *********
 390    2024-03-21 10:56    29  **********
 ...    ..( 13 skipped).    ..  **********
 404    2024-03-21 11:10    29  **********

SCT Error Recovery Control command not supported

Device Statistics (GP/SMART Log 0x04) not supported

Pending Defects log (GP Log 0x0c) not supported

SATA Phy Event Counters (GP Log 0x11)
ID      Size     Value  Description
0x0001  2            0  Command failed due to ICRC error
0x0002  2            0  R_ERR response for data FIS
0x0003  2            0  R_ERR response for device-to-host data FIS
0x0004  2            0  R_ERR response for host-to-device data FIS
0x0005  2            0  R_ERR response for non-data FIS
0x0006  2            0  R_ERR response for device-to-host non-data FIS
0x0007  2            0  R_ERR response for host-to-device non-data FIS
0x0008  2            0  Device-to-host non-data FIS retries
0x0009  2            3  Transition from drive PhyRdy to drive PhyNRdy
0x000a  2            3  Device-to-host register FISes sent due to a COMRESET
0x000b  2            0  CRC errors within host-to-device FIS
0x000f  2            0  R_ERR response for host-to-device data FIS, CRC
0x0012  2            0  R_ERR response for host-to-device non-data FIS, CRC
0x8000  4         1550  Vendor specific
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Haha.Thanks for the reply. Yeah, I have zero clue how any of that works or if it needs to be done (or how it would even be done if it were needed ahaha.)

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It could be the thumbnailer service, if you have videos and fotos. It is supposed to run with low priority but who knows. Try googling how to disable it (i am on xfce, if you are on something else i do not think it is called thumbnailerd).

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I def think this possibly has something to do with it because when I saw my ram was filling up, the first thing I did was check the processes and I feel there was a ā€œthumbnailerā€ something or another at the top of the list. I will try mounting it again and seeing what that thing was called. Thanks for the tip. I feel derp for not looking into it more. I saw it was gnome, so I just assumed it was doing what it was supposed to.

gdk-pixbuff-thumbnailer seems to be what it is called. And the memory usage is really high.

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Is it ā€œsafeā€ to disable (I still donā€™t know how and will have to research how to do so)?

Does all it do is create thumbnails for files and nothing else, I guess? That functionality is obviously nice to have, but jeeze, not at the cost of crashing my computer. Iā€™d be fine if it wanted to runā€¦with less ram, and just be slower. Or if it could just do itā€™s job one time and not do it repeatedly. Itā€™s weird. Iā€™ve never had this issue before. Iā€™m curious if something triggered it to ā€œdo it all over againā€ or something. Like a new update or something.

Edit: To confirm, I ā€œkilledā€ it and the ram immediately returned to normal. Switching it to ā€œvery lowā€ priority didnā€™t seem to make any difference at all (I changed it in the ā€œsystem monitorā€ window while it was running).

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The next thing, then, would be to try and find out which process is causing this, because something is running wild. But we need to install it first:

pamac install iotop

ā€¦and please provide the output o the following:

sudo iotop --iter=1 -bP | head -n 13

Edit:

That looks like it could be it.

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Linux cache is very good at what ti does - so it may be premptively caching the file system - perhaps indexing or reading/generating thumbnails for videos and images.

A file system on 4TB disk can store a lot of data ā€¦

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So, @linux-aarhus , @Mirdarthos , and @Teo , @freggel.doe (sorry, didnā€™t want to act like I was ignoring anyone or giving one extra creditā€¦youā€™ve all been very insighful)

I suppose the solution then is to make sure Iā€™m running as little as possible on my computer, mount it, let it spaz out and stutter until it sorts itself out somehow?

And yes, aarhus, I have probably 2.5TB of files and such on there. Pictures, videos, games, documents, the works.

My computer is old, but it isnā€™t ā€œweakā€ (16gb ram, nvidia 1080ti, i7 4790k). I guess itā€™s just finally starting to show itā€™s age relative to how much work Iā€™m trying to get it to do and I should consider a rebuild in my near future.

I only bring it up becauseā€¦is this normal? Files are only going to get larger and storage bigger. When I design my new computer, should I be accounting for something more like 64gb of RAM or more? Is that some pretty ā€œbusiness as usualā€ stuff these days? Maybe I was just a bit naive about 16gb being an ā€œacceptableā€ amount of ram by todayā€™s standards (truly havenā€™t looked at the market in a long, long time).

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Do you have Nautilus open when you mount the drive, and is Nautilus set to show preview thumbnails for video & images files? If so, can you switch off previews in Nautilus & see if the problem re-occurs? You say you have a lot of video & image files - maybe you have a video somewhere that has been converted to a .webp (animated picture) file instead of a .webm (video). If so, the thumbnailer would be reading every frame of the webp file, thus filling up your RAM. I donā€™t use Gnome, so I am not sure of Nautilusā€™ features, but this thread from 3 months ago may be helpful:

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I have 1GB, and it never gets maxed out, so chances are slim itā€™s that.

Indexing does, however, take a lot of resources. Initially. But relatively little when itā€™s done, eventually.

So, while I donā€™t know about Gnome, in KDE I have excluded many, if not most things from being indexed. And Iā€™ve got 8GB worth of shā€¦tuff here, so I doubt your 2.5TB will ne your much of a burdenā€¦

Edit:

More about the search indexer here:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/GNOME#Search

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Well, it will eventually analyze everything on the drive and stop and then it should only index the changes if it is not buggy. I guess one solution will be to leave it overnight.
Or google how to disable it, if it is service, or daemon, or a gnome conf setting.
I see some related stuff in dconf editor for example, in the branch org/gnome/desktop/thumb*

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@scotty65 You are a legend. That is exactly what is happening!

I do use Nautilus, and idk where that preview thumbnail setting is to toggle, but I do have them on (I can see little visual representations of everything).

I downloaded a program a few days ago called ā€œWebReadyā€ and itā€™s supposed to convert things to animated files as you describe. I had never used it before, but I was just messing around with it to see if it would make gifs or something (again, Iā€™d never used it before, so I wanted to see what itā€™d do). And I tried to run a webm video into it to see what kinda output Iā€™d get. I ended up never messing with the file, but it is indeed on that exact drive, and if what you say is true and that itā€™s creating a thumbnail for every frameā€¦I imagine thatā€™s an INSANE number of frames.

Iā€™ve deleted the file and Iā€™m assuming this is precisely what was happening.

Iā€™m also assuming this is not intended behavior at all? Like it shouldnā€™t be generating that many thumbnails, and itā€™s something that needs to be fixed by someone?

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See, and thatā€™s what I thought. My computer isnā€™t a ā€œbeastā€ like it used to be, but even an old i7 and 16gb of ram should handle just about anything I throw at it (within reason obviously). I appreciate your feedback on this because I was surely about to feel a bit crazy.

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Well, my i7 with 16GB RAM has handles everything is threw at itā€¦

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