hm, nothing obviously wrong with it. worker_threads could be more i guess.

can you try to run

darktable -d cache -d memory

and see if that report unreasonable sizes, or if they are reasonable,
but top shows way more memory usage?

-jo

On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 9:18 PM, B.W.H. van Beest <[email protected]> wrote:
> Here it is.
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On 12/07/2012 08:52 AM, johannes hanika wrote:
>>
>> 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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