Re: Massive, massive, massive memory leak

[Pat Suwalski <pat suwalski net>]

Dan wrote:
> 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 had this experience with tracker attempting to index the thumbnails 
of my RAW images.

--Pat