It seems that (a) and (b) are separate bugs as far as shotwell's dev team is concerned. The upstream report for the "inadequate progress feedback" part now lives at: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=732663 and I've just filed a separate bug for the memory usage part: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=732663
** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #732663 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=732663 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Studio Bugs, which is subscribed to shotwell in Ubuntu. Matching subscriptions: Ubuntu Studio Bugs https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/912964 Title: videos are completely loaded into memory on import Status in “shotwell” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: These days, more and more digicams ship with video capabilities. These videos can become huge, multiple gigabytes for one video is not an exception. However, Shotwell seems to be loading the *entire* video into memory before writing it to disk, which completely 'freezes' the import process (there's no indication of the fact that a video is being copied and nothing appears to be happening), slows down the computer since most of the internal memory is being consumed and it potentially crashes machines which are low on memory. What should happen is that: a) the user gets informed by Shotwell that a video is being imported (text feedback with i.e. file name/size + ETA, progress bar, thumbnail of the video) b) instead of loading the entire file into memory, Shotwell should load 'reasonable' chunks at a time and write those to disk sequentially. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: shotwell 0.11.6-0ubuntu0.1 [modified: usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/gschemas.compiled] ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-14.23-generic 3.0.9 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-14-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4 Architecture: amd64 Date: Mon Jan 2 21:42:16 2012 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012) SourcePackage: shotwell UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/shotwell/+bug/912964/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntustudio-bugs Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntustudio-bugs More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
