[Digikam-users] digikam 1.2.0 slows down

[Tim Jenness]

and doing the obvious thing of looking at top I see that kio_thumbnail is
taking between 30 and 65% of my CPU and 10% of my RAM (450MB) even when I'm
not using digikam. digikam itself is at 0% CPU with 5% of RAM.

Tim

On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 8:30 PM, Tim Jenness <tim.jenness at gmail.com> wrote:

> and sorry. I'm on gentoo 64-bit.
>
>
> On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 8:30 PM, Tim Jenness <tim.jenness at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> For me it happens when I'm rating. I do a sequence like "Ctrl-N, space,
>> Ctrl-N, space..." etc where "N" is a rating 1-5 and I'm viewing the album
>> one image at a time. The first few are lightning fast but a few hundred in
>> it's crawling and I have to restart digikam.
>>
>> Tim
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 6:03 AM, Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles at gmail.com
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> I cannot reproduce this memory leak under Mandriva 2010.1.
>>>
>>> I processed this week end more than 130 RAW image taken with my Sony
>>> Alpha 500. Tagging, comparing, sorting, demosaicing, editing (ratio
>>> crop, color corrections) saving to PNG, export to JPEG (via BQM)...
>>>
>>> No problem : Double core 2.5 Ghz (32bits) + 4 GB RAM. digiKam +
>>> kipi-plugins + kdegraphics/libs + Exiv2 from trunk
>>>
>>> Do you use 64 bits system ?
>>>
>>> Can you take a look memory leak with valgrind :
>>>
>>> http://lxr.kde.org/source/extragear/graphics/digikam/HACKING#241
>>>
>>> Gilles Caulier
>>>
>>> 2010/7/25 Stedtlund <falolaf at gmail.com>:
>>> > Hi,
>>> >
>>> > I might have a similar problem with digiKam 1.3.0 in openSUSE 11.3. I
>>> > can see that digiKam takes a lot of ram, over 60% according to top,
>>> > after some slideshows. I haven't moved images, just selected images
>>> > for different slideshows.
>>> >
>>> > The whole system gets sluggish.
>>> >
>>> > Restart of digiKam is needed. One process takes a lot of time before
>>> finishing.
>>> >
>>> > /Anders
>>> >
>>> > 2010/7/25 Daniel Bauer <linux at daniel-bauer.com>:
>>> >> On Saturday 24 July 2010 16.31:40, Dr. Martin Senftleben wrote:
>>> >>> Hi,
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Am 24.07.2010 14:24, schrieb Sven Burmeister:
>>> >>> > Am Freitag, 23. Juli 2010, 10:19:27 schrieb Dr. Martin Senftleben:
>>> >>> >> After having gone through about 100 images in this manner, I find
>>> that
>>> >>> >> digikam slows down quite a bit, up to the point that I have to
>>> wait for
>>> >>> >> a minute for changes to apply to the image I'm just working on.
>>> After a
>>> >>> >> restart, everything is fine again, changes are applied
>>> instantaneously.
>>> >>> >> Is there a way to bypass the need to restart digikam? Is this a
>>> known
>>> >>> >> problem that has been solved in 1.3?
>>> >>> >
>>> >>> > If you move/rename folders and pictures it could be related to
>>> >>> > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=242816
>>> >>>
>>> >>> No, I wasn't moving or renaming any folders, I was only moving images
>>> >>> from within digkam from one folder (album) to another. It doesn't
>>> look
>>> >>> like the same or similar problem.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Martin
>>> >>
>>> >> I experience same behaviour with digiKam Version 1.3.0, KDE 4.4.5 on
>>> openSuse
>>> >> 11.2.
>>> >>
>>> >> I do a selection from a series, move this selection to another folder.
>>> Go to
>>> >> another folder, do a selection, move this to another folder. Go to
>>> another
>>> >> folder, select 50 images, delete them (move to trash)...
>>> >>
>>> >> Now it takes very long to move oder delete further images, or to show
>>> the
>>> >> thumbs of another thumb, or to open an image in the editor.
>>> >>
>>> >> Just closing/reopening digikam doesn't help al lot. I have to wait
>>> until all
>>> >> processes of digikam have finished (they don't finish immediately
>>> after
>>> >> closing the app). In my opinion there is no difference, whether I just
>>> wait a
>>> >> while until digikam "gets normal" again or if I close/reopen digikam.
>>> >>
>>> >> I guess it is a problem of the database. I use the standard database
>>> (not
>>> >> mysql).
>>> >>
>>> >> However I am already used to it. Also, I have a slow computer
>>> anyway...
>>> >>
>>> >> Daniel
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> --
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