Re: Massive, massive, massive memory leak

[Bin Tian <wjshtb gmail com>]

Or it may have something to do with broken USB support?

Could you try to copy the photos into a folder on your desktop,
disconnect the USB drive, and then import the photos again? If the
problem is within f-spot, you should experience the same memory-leak
problem.

-Bin

On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 7:02 AM, Pat Suwalski <pat suwalski net> wrote:
> 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
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