[Digikam-devel] Collection Scanning of Specific Directories

[Marcel Wiesweg]

> Hi,
> 
> I'm having problems with 1.3.0 (built from SVN.)
> 
> I have a large number of pictures spread out over a number of
> directories.

10^6? 10^7?


> 
> When Digikam starts up with a new DB it wants to scan the entire
> collection.
> 
> If I allow it to do so it performs the scan (over many hours) and then
> when it looks like it's completed the scan, it gets a realloc (memory
> corruption) error and hangs.
> 
> I have to kill Digikam and the next time I restart it still wants to
> rescan everything.
> 
> If I cancel out of the collection scan dialog box then it ends up with
> a QLIST out of memory error.

Can you give a backtrace? Would also be nice to have a backtrace for the first 
crash, but I can understand that is not done in a minute.

> 
> I was wondering if I could either:
> 
> 1)  Just scan each directory individually so as not to run out of memory
> 
> or
> 
> 2)  Perform some kind of incremental scan so that if it crashes during
> the initial scan I could restart and pic up where it left off
> (eventually getting past the out of memory problems.)

The solution should be not to get out of memory at all ;-)