Tumblerd maxing-out processors (Unresolved Issue - Bugzilla)

[Myself]

Tumblerd maxing-out the processors and sending temperatures soaring to 86C. LMDE Xfce 64bit.

It was only using 10Mb of RAM but CPU usage was jumping from 50 to 98% and slowing down everything else. I understand this program is required for thumbnailing of video files but it is seriously buggy. I have done some searching on the web and found the link posted below but I have not found any solution except my own which is to stop it using Task Manager. Anyone know of a more permanent solution to this serious bug?

http://old.nabble.com/Tumblerd-causes-system-crash-(OOM)-td33339932.html

Another link that shows this is a known issue.
https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7384

[Myself]

Is it possible to remove this damned pest of a process without damaging LMDE Xfce?
It's basically the equivalent to malware!
It launches itself when it feels like it and takes over the processor/s completely making them constantly run very hot.
I stop it with Task Manager and don't find it any loss when it's stopped.
So, can it it be safely removed completely?

[Myself]

This problem has not been resolved by upgrading to Update Pack 4.

[Bergschreck]

tumblerd is still extremely buggy. Sometimes it consumes the whole memory (I have 2 GB RAM) and system begins swapping. When it tries to thumbnail video files with codecs it does not know (like wmv3), it does not close the file, keeps them open forever and therefore prevents unmounting drives.

Is there any alternative solution for generating thumbnails for Thunar?

[compiler]

Hi.

It's the second time in a week that I have to quickly "kill -9" tumblerd before the machine completely crashes.

I was renaming files in a folder with 20 small (~100MB) avi files with thunar and the computer began to work very slowly. Running top showed that tumblerd was eating 100% of CPU and 4 GB of memory.

Tumblerd also prevents me lots of times to umount my multimedia disk or pendrives, because the process has still opened files from the mount point (you can see this with lsof -n | grep the_mount_point). I have to open a terminal, kill the process and then I can umount the external drive.

I like having thumbnails of pictures and videos, but having to reset a 6GB computer because I'm renaming 20 video files and being unable to umount pendrives it's not OK...

[RJim]

tumblerd is still extremely buggy. Sometimes it consumes the whole memory (I have 2 GB RAM) and system begins swapping. When it tries to thumbnail video files with codecs it does not know (like wmv3), it does not close the file, keeps them open forever and therefore prevents unmounting drives.

I was being recently puzzled by some sdcards and USB sticks of mine refusing to unmount, and now I know the reason why... tumblerd.
My temporary/semi-permanent solution is the same that I am using for polkitd, and that is to have a cron job that kills the process every 30 minutes.

It is not elegant, but it does get the job done.

--Jim