| Summary: | Sending selected pictures makes PC hang for 15 minutes + crash | ||
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| Product: | [Applications] digikam | Reporter: | ralf@skolelinux.de <rgx> |
| Component: | Plugin-Generic-SendByMail | Assignee: | Digikam Developers <digikam-bugs-null> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | crash | CC: | caulier.gilles |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version: | 5.6.0 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | unspecified | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | 5.7.0 | |
| Sentry Crash Report: | |||
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Description
ralf@skolelinux.de
2007-09-16 17:22:46 UTC
Some further apps were closed during this process, namely Openoffice (several windows open). apparently, only selected files were written to /tmp/kde-knoppix/kipi-sendimagesplugin-16661 looks like /tmp and thus / ran out of memory during that process... this is what made ooo and digikam crash, I guess Hi Ralf, just wondering: does the problem also occur when openoffice is not running (I recently had some similar crashes with openoffice, where huge amount of RAM are used so that the kernel starts killing processes. So it could have also been openoffice killing digikam ... ;-) Could you try monitoring (eg. with top) the RAM used while exporting? Thanks, Arnd Hi Arnd,
Am Montag 17 September 2007 07:36 schrieb Arnd Baecker:
> Could you try monitoring (eg. with top) the RAM used while exporting?
While exporting I could not even switch to a console (ALT+F1) - the
system was totally overloaded. Partly due to a full / and thus /tmp!
Afterwards I only found those 5 files I meant to export in a tmp
folder - so this is okay. Nevertheless, image conversion (also during
html export) seems to be quite slow and cpu consuming...
Regards
Ralf
Hi Ralf, what I would be interested in, whether the problem is reproducible (in particular, without openoffice running at the same time). If you run top in a konsule, before you start sending the selected pictures and arange windows carefully, you should be able to see the output of top, even if the system is completely unresponsive. If the crash is reproducible and caused by digikam, a full backtrace will be needed to find the source of the problem (see: "If you are experiencing crashes with digiKam" on http://www.digikam.org/?q=contrib ) I can't comment on the speed as I don't use this tool... Thanks a lot in advance, Arnd Ralf, SendImages kipi-plugins write temporary images to e-mail in a the /tmp folder (using KDE api). I suspect a free-space problem on your computer. What a "df" give on your computer ? Gilles Caulier Ralf, The symptoms you described suggest that it was rather RAM shortage problem. I would guess that you couldn't switch to console due to extensive swapping and OpenOffice et al. were killed by the OOM killer. Make sure you set some sensible ulimit for memory, then try to reproduce. Only digiKam should get killed then. Pawel Dear Arnd, thanks for replying. The crash is not reproducable: I tried even while running Openoffice with 5 open documents. This time, the task completes within 5 seconds or so (the CPU load goes up to 100% meanwhile). So, it must have been due to full /tmp partition. Thanks, should be set to "worksforme" or "invalid". Regards Ralf Am Dienstag 18 September 2007 17:42 schrieb Arnd Baecker: [bugs.kde.org quoted mail] Thanks a lot for the feedback! Work perfectly with new Send by Mail tool from digiKam core. Gilles Caulier |