Re: Memory usage

[Warren Baird <photogeekmtl gmail com>]

Lorenzo Milesi wrote:
> Hi
>
> Yesterday I've been using F-spot for some hours to import many photos.
> I started, did a 1h break, and then back on again.
> After something like 6h of work F-spot started becoming slow to death.
> I thought it was the rsync running in another shell but after stopping
> it nothing changed. So I ran top and I saw cpu, memory and swap file
> all at 100%. I had 10 or 20 f-spot processes running and taking almost
> all the available memory!


I've seen similar behaviour quite often, unfortunately.   I reported it 
a while back on the mailing list, but it's a slippery one - I haven't 
yet been able to find a set of steps to reliably repeat it.

It seems to happen after I've been tagging a lot of photos, and then 
start filtering based on tags, at some point, I'll try to do a filter, 
and my memory usage will sky-rocket --- f-spot will basically grow to 
about 1.5gb

As I said, though - I haven't been able to repro it reliably...

Does anyone have any suggestions on instrumentation I could add to help 
track this down?

Warren