Re: large import

[Timothy Millard <millardster gmail com>]

On Mon, 2007-12-24 at 01:19 +0100, Lorenzo Milesi wrote:
> > Any suggestions how best to import?  I've got about 80GB of images to
> > import.
> >   
> I strongly doubt you will be able to import them in one shot. Sadly
> f-spot suffers some memory leaks, and it has been reported that
> importing MANY pictures at a time will fail.
> You should do import smaller directory each time.

I found that F-Spot crashes when /tmp is smaller than my import. This
was several versions ago and may not be applicable

My solution was to increase the size available to /tmp to 2 GiB (used
tmpfs so the files live inside memory).