Re: [gthumb-list] Extremely slow loading of thumbnails

[Paolo Bacchilega <paolo bacchilega libero it>]

Il 22/03/2012 23:12, Greg Mansfield ha scritto:
> On 03/22/2012 02:31 PM, Paolo Bacchilega wrote:
> > current git version fixes the problem for me, can you test it please?
>
> I tested it and it does not solve the problem for me. I'm puzzled that
> gThumb seems to be running away - reading the disk and consuming memory.
> Is there some debug code that I can use to see what is going on?
>
> In the case where I moved 140 files from the directory, the thumbnails
> for the remaining 598 images load quickly.

maybe among those 140 images there is one particular image that causes 
the problem, for some reason generating the thumbnail for that image 
consumes a lot of memory.

> After they are loaded, the
> system monitor shows no CPU usage, but 128MB of RAM used. Thumbnails for
> all these images are in the thumbnail cache. Thumbnails in the cache are
> typically 20KB each. What uses all the memory?

I just noticed that memory never decreases, there must be a memory leak 
somewhere, I need to investigate.

- Paolo