[Digikam-devel] [digikam] [Bug 338249] New: Digikam uses all free memory and gets terminated

[Micha]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=338249

            Bug ID: 338249
           Summary: Digikam uses all free memory and gets terminated
           Product: digikam
           Version: 4.2.0
          Platform: Kubuntu Packages
                OS: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: crash
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
          Assignee: digikam-devel at kde.org
          Reporter: micha.magen at gmail.com

After a long time in which I've been unable to use Digikam due to an unrelated
crash in phonon library, I finally managed to get it to install and run today. 
I get the splash screen, then the main window.  The main window shows a
progress bar (apparently for scanning my albums) which completes in about 26
seconds and I get a "no active process" message.  However, at the same time
(i.e. right afer the main window is shown) Digikam starts using all available
CPU resources (400%) and locking memory at a very high rate, until it gets to
70-80% of system memory, then I have a few minutes of swapping in which the
system is unusable, and finally memory is fully exhausted and the system
terminates Digikam.  It does not matter if I close the main window after it
starts to use CPU and memory, the digikam process would not disappear and
continues to use resources until it gets terminated.  I don't know what is
being done behind the scenes (as far as I can tell Digikam doesn't generate a
log file) but in the past I've been able to use Digikam (up to 3.4.0 I believe)
with the same image collection.  The issue exists in 4.2.0 and I've also tried
4.1.0 and 3.5.0 with the same result.

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