[KPhotoAlbum] New snapshot - and freeze anouncement

[Jesper K. Pedersen]

I'll have a look at it, that does indeed not sound too healthy.
Cheers
Jesper.

On Monday 16 January 2006 05:18, 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

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