Re: Massive, massive, massive memory leak

[Stephane Delcroix <stephane delcroix org>]

if 100 photos is enough to put f-spot down, we've a real issue here.
otoh, I usually import more than that at a times, without any issues.

please zip those 100 images and make them available on an ftp or www to
test.

s

On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 09:27 +1100, Dan wrote:
> Hi people.
> 
> I've been floating back and forth between f-spot, picasa and digikam
> for quite a while. Suffice to say I can't find one that really sits
> well with me. Now I've found a blocker to using f-spot at all. I can't
> import my photos. I have them all backed up on an external usb drive.
> When I select the folder to import from f-spot ( many versions for the
> past couple of years, ubuntu, gentoo, sabayon ), f-spot quickly chews
> up all my memory and brings down the whole system. Occasionally I've
> been able to open an xterm, open top, and kill it. Sometimes not.
> 
> I've searched through the list archives, and see people pointing the
> finger at libexif. But this has been going on for years. Is anyone
> actually working on it?
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/f-spot-list/2007-June/msg00049.html
> mentions that 'Larry' was working on removing the libexif dependancy.
> If this is not possible, surely we could do a quick hack to mop things
> up every 100 photos processed, or something, so f-spot is usable?
> Maybe I'm missing something. I'm not a C# developer. But seriously,
> WTF?
> 
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/f-spot-list/2006-November/msg00056.html
> 
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/f-spot-list/2006-November/msg00045.html
> 
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/f-spot-list/2007-June/msg00050.html
> 
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/f-spot-list/2007-May/msg00010.html
> 
> What options other than libexif are there? Has any coding begun? If
> someone points me in the right direction, I am considering looking
> into a solution - including fixing libexif if this is where the
> problem actually is.
> 
> Dan
> 
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