Hi Adam,

Yes exactly, like reported in this previous post:
http://lists.yorba.org/pipermail/shotwell/2011-February/001793.html
http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/3021

Cheers
Mike

2011/2/21 Adam Dingle <[email protected]>:
> Mike,
>
> not completely sure I understand your last email - can you confirm the
> following?
>
> - When you start Shotwell when using the Aurora theme, Shotwell allocates
> all available memory and uses 100% CPU.
> - When you start Shotwell when using other themes, everything works fine.
>
> adam
>
> On 02/19/2011 01:41 AM, Mike Massonnet wrote:
>>
>> Why I was sure I wasn't using an Aurora theme... switching to another
>> theme fixed the issue.
>>
>> Kind Regards
>> Mike
>>
>> 2011/2/19 Mike Massonnet<[email protected]>:
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I have seen a few posts on this list about Shotwell 0.8.1 not
>>> starting, but I haven't found anything similar to what I'm facing.
>>>
>>> While Shotwell does start, it consumes more and more memory until it
>>> reaches a point where new memory can't be allocated. I have run strace
>>> on it, and in fact it shows the following result:
>>>
>>> mmap2(NULL, 262144, ...) = 0xae1a2000
>>> mmap2(NULL, 520192, ...) = 0xae123000
>>> mmap2(NULL, 1036288, ...) = 0xae026000
>>> mmap2(NULL, 2068480, ...) = 0xade2d000
>>> mmap2(NULL, 4132864, ...) = 0xada3c000
>>> mmap2(NULL, 8261632, ...) = 0xad25b000
>>> mmap2(NULL, 16519168, ...) = 0xac29a000
>>> mmap2(NULL, 33034240, ...) = 0xaa319000
>>> mmap2(NULL, 66064384, ...) = 0xa6418000
>>> mmap2(NULL, 132124672, ...) = 0x9e617000
>>> mmap2(NULL, 264245248, ...) = 0x8ea16000
>>> mmap2(NULL, 528486400, ...) = 0x6f215000
>>> mmap2(NULL, 1056968704, ...) = -1 ENOMEM (Cannot allocate memory)
>>> brk(0x494de000)                         = 0xa4de000
>>> mmap2(NULL, 1057099776, ...) = -1 ENOMEM (Cannot allocate memory)
>>> mmap2(NULL, 1056968704, ...) = -1 ENOMEM (Cannot allocate memory)
>>>
>>> We can actually see that the allocated size is always doubled.
>>>
>>> Shotwell will keep running and consuming 100% CPU of one core (I'm
>>> glade to have two cores), and use almost all the RAM, but nothing
>>> seems to be progressing, no files seem to be read or written.
>>>
>>> I have tried to use an empty data directory, but it ends the same. The
>>> shotwell.log file contains only the following two lines:
>>>
>>> L 14195 2011-02-19 10:16:52 [MSG] main.vala:61: Verifying database ...
>>> L 14195 2011-02-19 10:16:53 [MSG] VideoSupport.vala:373: interpreter
>>> state cookie not found; assuming all video thumbnails are out of date
>>>
>>> Given this is the latest stable version, I'm reporting it here for now ;)
>>>
>>> Kind Regards
>>> --
>>> Mike
>>> PS: my shotwell 0.6.1 won't start because it doesn't find libexiv2
>>> anymore, and rebuilding it needs an older version of Vala, I have
>>> installed shotwell 0.8.1 from the ArchLinux package
>>> PPS: I'm the one who bugged you about this on twitter under @m8t
>>>
>>
>>
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