John,First of all, the error "Directory Sony2 with ##### entries considered invalid" is unrelated and is spurious: this is a manifestation of http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/1872 .
Your gconftool commands look correct, so we've ruled out that auto-import is causing the memory flood; that's good.
- How much RAM do you have on your system?- Can you do this? Start Shotwell with an empty library (e.g. "shotwell -d ~/foo"), then import just 1000 of your photos. (Here's one way to do that: use gnome-search-tool, otherwise known as Places->Search for Files, to find all files in ~/Pictures, then select just 1000 of them and drag them into Shotwell.) After you've done this, how much physical and virtual memory is the 'shotwell' process using, e.g. as reported by the GNOME System Monitor?
- Now repeat the previous experiment with 5000 photos. Once again, how much physical and virtual memory is the 'shotwell' process using?
adam On 01/24/2011 04:33 PM, John Carlyle-Clarke wrote:
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/filesimport_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 not sure 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 _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell_______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell_______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
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