Bug 252792

Summary:	Dolphin uses all RAM when copying a folder from CD-ROM
Product:	[Applications] dolphin	Reporter:	Beat Wolf <asraniel>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Peter Penz <peter.penz19>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	faure, mail, markg85
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	16.12.2
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Beat Wolf 2010-09-29 20:42:38 UTC

Version:           unspecified (using KDE 4.5.1) 
OS:                Linux

When copying a cd or a folder from a cd, that contains many subfolders and files in it (in that example it was a cd with source code/binaries from a rather large application), dolphin will very quickly use up all ram.

Reproducible: Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:
burn a cd (or find one) with a a folder containing many subfolders and files (source code seems to be perfect).
Copy that folder from the cd to your local harddisk

Actual Results:  
dolphin will quickly use all ram and freeze the computer (after 2-3 minutes with 4 GB of ram).

Expected Results:  
copy the files normaly.

Comment 1 Beat Wolf 2010-09-29 20:51:40 UTC

i might have found the cause for the problem.

There are certain folders that contain symbolic links, to themselve.
How that happend i don't know (i didn't create the cd).

When i copy the cd-rom from the command line with cp -r, it works because symbolic links are ignored. Perhaps dolphin should also ignore them? or at least double check if they are not recursive?

Comment 2 Mark 2010-10-18 04:13:38 UTC

David, any thoughts on this?

Comment 3 Julian Steinmann 2018-03-19 07:12:25 UTC

I sadly do not have a CD-ROM available, so I cannot triage this bug myself. Can anyone confirm that this is still an issue with Dolphin v17.12.3? If not, I'll close this bug soon™.

Comment 4 Julian Steinmann 2018-04-02 11:19:39 UTC

No response -> closing. Please reopen if you can still reproduce this behavior with the newest version of Dolphin.