[KPhotoAlbum] New snapshot - and freeze anouncement

[Eugen Dedu]

It happens to me too to need swapping, with near 100 images for example. 
  IIRC, kimdaba^Wkphotoalbum even crashes.

Regards,
Eugen

Nicolas M. Thiery wrote:
> 	Dear Jesper,
> 
> Since we are at bug-fixing time, here is a bug report to make your
> great soft even cooler!
> 
> With my current setting, when I select a large number of images, and
> starts the image viewer (in full screen, 1400x1050) the memory used by
> Kimdaba starts increasing at a rate of 5Mo/s even if I don't do
> anything; at some point, it reaches 500 Mo, my laptop starts swapping
> like mad, and I often end up being forced to reboot.  The thing is
> that this is a typical use-case when I show pictures of my latest
> trips to my friends; and they end up gossiping about the stability of
> linux and open-source software. Bummer :-(
> 
> On the other hand, if I detect the problem early enough and leave the
> full-screen viewer with escape, then Kimdaba returns immediately to
> normal memory usage (~100 Mo). Also, if the number of selected image
> is small enough, the memory stops increasing at some point: overall,
> it sounds like the viewer is preloading all selected images in the
> cache, with a memory consumption of about 7Mo/ image. I have tried
> playing around with the viewer cache size configuration, but with no
> luck; it seems to be ignored. On the other hand, when I temporarily
> moved away my index.xml file, and recreated a brand new one with the
> same images, the problem disappeared.
> 
> I noticed this problem first about one year ago; sorry I did not take
> the time earlier to report it. I assume that it is caused by some
> inappropriate setting in my configuration file.
> 
> Has anyone else experienced some similar behavior?
> 
> Configuration: Kimdaba 2.1, i386, Fedora Core 4, with latest updates,
> qt3.3, kde 3.5. Main settings in my XML file:
> 
>  <config viewSortTye="0" passwd="" ensureImageWindowsOnScreen="1"
>  viewerCacheSize="5" albumCategory="Folder" showDrawings="0"
>  htmlBaseURL="http://Nicolas.Thiery.name/Photos/" previewSize="256"
>  thumbSize="96" displayLabels="1" launchViewerFullScreen="1"
>  windowWidth-0="1392" showInfoBox="1" windowWidth-1="1392"
>  viewerWidth_1400="600" fromDate="2005-01-01" htmlDestURL=""
>  trustTimeStamps="0" windowHeight-0="1025"
>  thumbNailBackgroundColor="#000000" windowHeight-1="1025"
>  autoShowThumbnailViewCount="0" slideShowInterval="5"
>  toDate="2006-01-01" exclude="1" infoBoxPosition="7"
>  slideShowHeight_1400="450" alignColumns="1" locked="0" showDate="1"
>  imageDirectory="/home/nthiery/Photos" histogramHeigth="30"
>  histogramWidth="15" searchForImagesOnStartup="1" autoSave="5"
>  version="1" viewerHeight_1400="450" launchSlideShowFullScreen="1"
>  showDescription="1" maxImages="10000" useEXIFComments="1"
>  useEXIFRotate="1" rowSpacing="10" showTime="1"
>  htmlBaseDir="file:/home/nthiery/www/Photos/"
>  slideShowWidth_1400="600" >
> 
> I haven't tried yet the latest snapshot of KImageViewer; let me know
> if you think this might make a difference, and I will give it a try.
> Let me know if I should send you the full .xml file, or if I can do
> more experiment for you.
> 
> Many thanks in advance!
> 
> Cheers,
> 					Nicolas