Shotwell 0.12.3 consumes massive amount of RAM if auto-import is on and you have a large photo library
Submitted by an unknown user
Link to original bug (#718892)
Description
---- Reported by shotwell-maint@gnome.bugs 2012-08-06 09:43:00 -0700 ----
Original Redmine bug id: 5622
Original URL: http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/5622
Searchable id: yorba-bug-5622
Original author: Eduard Grebe
Original description:
When initially trying to import all of my photos (about 27 000, man RAWs), Shotwell kept crashing. I discovered it ran out of memory during the operation. I finally managed to get it to finish by increasing my swap space to 32GB.
However, everytime I launch the application while the "watch library directory for new files" option is switched on, it starts an auto-import process (even if there are no new files) and the application ends up consuming a huge amount of RAM that it never releases. As you can see in the attached screenshot, the application -- which had been running for some time, no new photos to import -- is using more than 15GB of memory.
---- Additional Comments From shotwell-maint@gnome.bugs 2013-05-16 14:37:00 -0700 ----
History
Comment 1
Updated by Adam Dingle over 1 year ago
- Priority changed from Normal to High
- Target version set to 0.13
This sounds worth investigating. From the attached screenshot it looks like you're running Ubuntu. Which version are you running?
Comment 2
Updated by Adam Dingle over 1 year ago
This has been reported downstream at https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1033572 . Looks like Eduard is running Ubuntu 12.04.
Comment 3
Updated by Eduard Grebe over 1 year ago
Adam Dingle wrote:
This has been reported downstream at https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1033572 . Looks like Eduard is running Ubuntu 12.04.
Indeed 12.04 yes.
Comment 4
Updated by Adam Dingle about 1 year ago
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Target version deleted (
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_0.13_</strike>
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Comment 5
Updated by Jim Nelson 11 months ago
- Target version set to 0.14.0
Comment 6
Updated by Jim Nelson 11 months ago
- Category set to import
Comment 7
Updated by Jim Nelson 10 months ago
- Category changed from import to performance
- Target version changed from 0.14.0 to 0.15.0
This is clearly related to the size of the library and, perhaps, the number of RAW images in it. We're not going to be able to get to this for 0.14, but we'll take a look at 0.15.
Comment 8
Updated by Jim Nelson 6 months ago
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Target version deleted (
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_0.15.0_</strike>
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--- Bug imported by chaz@yorba.org 2013-11-25 21:58 UTC ---
This bug was previously known as bug 5622 at http://redmine.yorba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5622 Imported an attachment (id=262586)
Unknown version " in product shotwell. Setting version to "!unspecified". Unknown milestone "unknown in product shotwell. Setting to default milestone for this product, "---". Setting qa contact to the default for this product. This bug either had no qa contact or an invalid one. Resolution set on an open status. Dropping resolution