not sure whether it’s a bug, so maybe someone can help me out here:
when I have a folder with a large number, theoretically even infinite jpg files (contains a symbolic link ./subdir1 → ./), it hangs when displaying the file list with thumbnails enabled.
The load is 0.05, so it’s not a resource issue,
but turning off the thumbnail feature fixes it.
Is this a bug? or expected behaviour?
Define “large” ?
Dolphin loads thumbnails one by one in a separate thread, loading thumbnails on itself shouldn’t make the UI hand, prioritizing the one in the view.
At least that’s not a behavior I could see in a directory with 600 jpg files.
Are you talking about the KDE File Open/save dialog ?
around 12k .jpeg files in directory ‘dir’
is it possible dolphin follows ‘dir’ / ‘subdir1’ pointing to ‘dir’ / ‘subdir1’ pointing to ‘dir’ / … causing a path overflow?
is it possible dolphin follows ‘dir’ / ‘subdir1’ pointing to ‘dir’ / ‘subdir1’ pointing to ‘dir’ / … causing a path overflow?
Possible but still it shouldn’t hang because of thumbnails. It seems it is due just to infinite folder recursion.
wouldn’t that also hang in case thumbnails are disabled? if I disable the thumbnail feature, there’s no issue at all
and what are the specs of you laptop/desktop
would that have any bearing to this ?
probably not, as the load according to top is < 0.1.
We’re talking about a zen 2 APU here with 64GB of ram
I feel embarrassed that I asked, 
massive Oops.