Which version you use ?<div><br></div><div>Since 2.2.0 i work on import tool to limit memory consumption due to thumbnail processing. There is a cache interface now. Also, before this version, all thumbs from camera been processed. Now, only item displaed in icon view are processed on the fly.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I recommend to use 2.3.0. There is a little bug in this cache interface which can crash digiKam with AVI file. Marcel has fixed it with 2.3.0 release.</div><div><br></div><div>Best</div><div><br></div>
<div>Gilles Caulier<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2011/11/13 Alberto Ferrante <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alberto.ferrante@tiscali.it">alberto.ferrante@tiscali.it</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Dear all,<br>
in the latest days I have tried to import my collection of photos into<br>
Digikam. Unfortunately I was not able: Digikam seems to require too<br>
much memory to import even not so big albums. For example, to import a<br>
folder with 3'000 picture Digikam used about 15GB of RAM (8 of RAM +<br>
swap). I was not able to import other larger folders (with more than<br>
10Kphotos) as Digikam was terminated after having filled all the<br>
available memory (about 20GB).<br>
I do not want to criticize this software (that looks very promising),<br>
but I feel like a tool like this becomes really useful if you have a<br>
large collection of photos (and this is why I would like to use it!).<br>
Therefore, it should be designed to handle this situation. Probably<br>
the computations after the collection read should be split in small<br>
chunks to avoid this huge memory usage.<br>
<br>
Any suggestion on how to make it work (besides using smaller<br>
collections, that is not viable for me)?<br>
<br>
Best regards,<br>
Alberto<br>
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