Re: [Shotwell] shotwell consumes all available memory on startup

John Carlyle-Clarke Mon, 24 Jan 2011 16:33:20 -0800

Hi Adam-

The progress dialog disappears before the memory usage starts to increase.


johncc@liberator:~/Pictures$ du -shx
34G     .
johncc@liberator:~/Pictures$ find | wc -l
17696

None of the pictures RAW format.

I don't have full GNOME, so hopefully I did this right:-

johncc@liberator:~/Pictures$ gconftool-2 --set --type=boolean/apps/shotwell/preferences/files/auto_import false

johncc@liberator:~/Pictures$ gconftool-2 -R /apps/shotwell/preferences/files
 import_dir = /home/johncc/Pictures
 commit_metadata = true
 auto_import = false

I still get the memory flood after this.

By the way, I just noticed a spurious error I get sometimes. I'm notsure if it's connected, but I can't find any directory called Sony2!


johncc@liberator:~/Pictures$ shotwell
Error: Directory Sony2 with 20307 entries considered invalid; not read.

Best regards,

        John

On 25/01/11 00:09, Adam Dingle wrote:

John,

- To be clear, does the progress dialog disappear, or does it remain
on-screen while the memory usage increases?

- How many photos are in your Shotwell library? Approximately how many
of them are RAW?

- Do you have the option to watch the library directory for new files
turned on? If so, could you try the following? While Shotwell is not
running, start gconf-editor, find the value
/apps/shotwell/preferences/files/auto_import and uncheck it to disable
library watching. Now start Shotwell again. Does the memory flood still
occur?

adam

On 01/24/2011 03:45 PM, John Carlyle-Clarke wrote:

I'm having a problem with shotwell 0.8.1 on Archlinux 64-bit. When I
start it, the progress dialog appears, followed by the UI. After a few
seconds, the UI becomes unresponsive and it starts to increase its
memory usage until it consumes all RAM and swap.

The end of the strace, which coincides with the beginning of the
increasing memory use, is:-

futex(0x7f6893be1ea0, FUTEX_WAKE_PRIVATE, 1) = 0
futex(0x7f6894830528, FUTEX_WAKE_PRIVATE, 1) = 0
futex(0x7f6894830528, FUTEX_WAKE_PRIVATE, 1) = 0
futex(0x7f6894830528, FUTEX_WAIT_PRIVATE, 2, NULL) = -1 EAGAIN
(Resource temporarily unavailable)
futex(0x7f6894830528, FUTEX_WAKE_PRIVATE, 1) = 0
futex(0x7f689508d8e8, FUTEX_WAKE_PRIVATE, 1) = 0
brk(0x5a2d000) = 0x5a2d000
brk(0x5a88000) = 0x5a88000
mmap(NULL, 499712, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS,
-1, 0) = 0x7f6888c62000
mmap(NULL, 999424, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS,
-1, 0) = 0x7f6888b6e000
mmap(NULL, 1994752, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS,
-1, 0) = 0x7f6888987000
futex(0x7f6893be1ea0, FUTEX_WAKE_PRIVATE, 1) = 1
mmap(NULL, 3985408, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS,
-1, 0) = 0x7f68885ba000
mmap(NULL, 7966720, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS,
-1, 0) = 0x7f687ad4f000
futex(0x7f6893be1ea0, FUTEX_WAKE_PRIVATE, 1) = 1
mmap(NULL, 15929344, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS,
-1, 0) = 0x7f6879e1e000
mmap(NULL, 31854592, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS,
-1, 0) = 0x7f6877fbd000
futex(0x7f6893be1ea0, FUTEX_WAKE_PRIVATE, 1) = 1
mmap(NULL, 63705088, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS,
-1, 0) = 0x7f68742fc000
mmap(NULL, 127406080, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS,
-1, 0) = 0x7f686c97b000
mmap(NULL, 254808064, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS,
-1, 0) = 0x7f685d67a000
mmap(NULL, 509612032, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS,
-1, 0) = 0x7f683f079000
mmap(NULL, 1019219968, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,
MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7f6802478000
mmap(NULL, 2038435840, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,
MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7f6788c77000

Not sure what else I can usefully provide! Let me know...

Thanks in advance.

John
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