Re: [Shotwell] 100% CPU consumption

[Jim Nelson <jim yorba org>]

On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 1:59 PM, Titus von der Malsburg <malsburg posteo de> wrote:

Ok, there are 5411 entries in phototable. All paths point into my ~/Pictures directory. However, 1678 of these files don't exist anymore. Is that a problem for Shotwell?

No, it shouldn't.  Internally Shotwell will mark those as Offline, but (as I recall) that's not even reflected in the database, merely how they're presented in the UI.

If you're willing to be more adventurous, you could run Shotwell under gdb.  When the CPU spikes, go to gdb and press Ctrl+C, then type bt.  That should give you a stack trace.  There's a good chance it will show you where Shotwell is spinning its wheels.

-- Jim