can you send your ~/.config/darktable/darktablerc (or try to move it
and run with a fresh config)? sounds like your preferences are broken.

j.

On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 8:48 PM, B.W.H. van Beest <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> Very unfortunately, Darktable (DT) fails to work for me.  When I have worked
> a picture in DT and switch to lightroom mode, I get the message "failed to
> allocate memory for export, please lower the threads used for export or buy
> more memory."  The (raw) pictures have a size of approx 40-50 MB each (Nikon
> D800). I also get the message when I have only 1 picture loaded.I also
> enabled only 1 thread for export. With my previous camera (Nikon D200) who
> produces much smaller images  I have used DT successfully.
>
> My system has 24 GB of memory. I can't believe that this is insufficient.
> I am using the head of the git repository, so in a way the latest version.
>
> I tried  to spot the problem a bit more by compiling DT in debug mode. I
> found that the routine dt_dev_pixelpipe_cache_init()  in
> pixelpipe_cache.c has the line
>
> cache->data[k] = (void *)dt_alloc_align(16, size);
>
> (where size is 580 953 216, or 0.6GB)
>
> which fails after being called several times.
> This happens, however, when the total memory usage (according to the utility
> xosview) is roughly 7 GB.
> I have no knowledge about how DT works. Is there any developer how can help
> me out?
>
> Kind Regards,
> Bertwim
>
>
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