Bug 327815

Summary: Batch operations on a large number of pictures eats up all RAM
Product: [Applications] digikam Reporter: matteo.fortini
Component: BatchQueueManager-CoreAssignee: Digikam Developers <digikam-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: major CC: caulier.gilles
Priority: NOR    
Version: 3.5.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Debian unstable   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In: 6.2.0

Description matteo.fortini 2013-11-19 14:30:32 UTC 
When I start a batch operation on many files, like thumbnailing a quite large collection (41GB), Digikam starts to increase both its virtual memory and resident memory usage, up to the point in which I have to kill it, since the system starts thrashing (I have 8GB of RAM).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. add a large collection of pictures as a source
2. request tools->maintenance->thumbnail creation
3. look at RAM using top
Actual Results:  
VM and RSS RAM usage starts increasing.

Expected Results:  
Use smaller batches to avoid filling up all RAM
Comment 1 caulier.gilles 2013-11-19 15:21:56 UTC 
Already reported and fixed in next 4.0.0...

Gilles Caulier
Comment 2 caulier.gilles 2013-11-19 15:22:29 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 326525 ***
Comment 3 caulier.gilles 2019-07-28 21:35:53 UTC 
Fixed with bug #326525