[Shotwell] shotwell consumes all available memory on startup

[John Carlyle-Clarke]

Hi Adam-

The progress dialog disappears before the memory usage starts to increase.

johncc at liberator:~/Pictures$ du -shx
34G	.
johncc at liberator:~/Pictures$ find | wc -l
17696

None of the pictures RAW format.

I don't have full GNOME, so hopefully I did this right:-

johncc at liberator:~/Pictures$ gconftool-2 --set --type=boolean 
/apps/shotwell/preferences/files/auto_import false
johncc at liberator:~/Pictures$ gconftool-2 -R /apps/shotwell/preferences/files
  import_dir = /home/johncc/Pictures
  commit_metadata = true
  auto_import = false

I still get the memory flood after this.

By the way, I just noticed a spurious error I get sometimes.  I'm not 
sure if it's connected, but I can't find any directory called Sony2!

johncc at liberator:~/Pictures$ shotwell
Error: Directory Sony2 with 20307 entries considered invalid; not read.

Best regards,

	John

On 25/01/11 00:09, Adam Dingle wrote:
> John,
>
> - To be clear, does the progress dialog disappear, or does it remain
> on-screen while the memory usage increases?
>
> - How many photos are in your Shotwell library? Approximately how many
> of them are RAW?
>
> - Do you have the option to watch the library directory for new files
> turned on? If so, could you try the following? While Shotwell is not
> running, start gconf-editor, find the value
> /apps/shotwell/preferences/files/auto_import and uncheck it to disable
> library watching. Now start Shotwell again. Does the memory flood still
> occur?
>
> adam
>
> On 01/24/2011 03:45 PM, John Carlyle-Clarke wrote:
>> I'm having a problem with shotwell 0.8.1 on Archlinux 64-bit. When I
>> start it, the progress dialog appears, followed by the UI. After a few
>> seconds, the UI becomes unresponsive and it starts to increase its
>> memory usage until it consumes all RAM and swap.
>>
>> The end of the strace, which coincides with the beginning of the
>> increasing memory use, is:-
>>
>> futex(0x7f6893be1ea0, FUTEX_WAKE_PRIVATE, 1) = 0
>> futex(0x7f6894830528, FUTEX_WAKE_PRIVATE, 1) = 0
>> futex(0x7f6894830528, FUTEX_WAKE_PRIVATE, 1) = 0
>> futex(0x7f6894830528, FUTEX_WAIT_PRIVATE, 2, NULL) = -1 EAGAIN
>> (Resource temporarily unavailable)
>> futex(0x7f6894830528, FUTEX_WAKE_PRIVATE, 1) = 0
>> futex(0x7f689508d8e8, FUTEX_WAKE_PRIVATE, 1) = 0
>> brk(0x5a2d000) = 0x5a2d000
>> brk(0x5a88000) = 0x5a88000
>> mmap(NULL, 499712, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS,
>> -1, 0) = 0x7f6888c62000
>> mmap(NULL, 999424, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS,
>> -1, 0) = 0x7f6888b6e000
>> mmap(NULL, 1994752, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS,
>> -1, 0) = 0x7f6888987000
>> futex(0x7f6893be1ea0, FUTEX_WAKE_PRIVATE, 1) = 1
>> mmap(NULL, 3985408, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS,
>> -1, 0) = 0x7f68885ba000
>> mmap(NULL, 7966720, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS,
>> -1, 0) = 0x7f687ad4f000
>> futex(0x7f6893be1ea0, FUTEX_WAKE_PRIVATE, 1) = 1
>> mmap(NULL, 15929344, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS,
>> -1, 0) = 0x7f6879e1e000
>> mmap(NULL, 31854592, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS,
>> -1, 0) = 0x7f6877fbd000
>> futex(0x7f6893be1ea0, FUTEX_WAKE_PRIVATE, 1) = 1
>> mmap(NULL, 63705088, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS,
>> -1, 0) = 0x7f68742fc000
>> mmap(NULL, 127406080, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS,
>> -1, 0) = 0x7f686c97b000
>> mmap(NULL, 254808064, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS,
>> -1, 0) = 0x7f685d67a000
>> mmap(NULL, 509612032, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS,
>> -1, 0) = 0x7f683f079000
>> mmap(NULL, 1019219968, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,
>> MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7f6802478000
>> mmap(NULL, 2038435840, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,
>> MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7f6788c77000
>>
>> Not sure what else I can usefully provide! Let me know...
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>> John
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