Version: 1.2.0 (using KDE 4.4.4) OS: Linux I upgraded to Fedora 13 and tried to load my pictures directory into digikam. My system has 2 GB of RAM, and Digikam used quite a bit of memory when importing the images. When it got to a subdirectory with a large image (a 16384x8192 pixel TIFF), the memory usage went even higher, and the system nearly froze due to swap thrashing until I killed Digikam. I then moved out the subdirectory with the large image and restarted Digikam, and this time it loaded without hanging. Reproducible: Always
digiKam 1.6.0 is out: http://www.digikam.org/drupal/node/550 Please update and check if this entry still valid. Thanks in advance Gilles Caulier
Did you try to edit/view the image, or do you refer to the initial scan when digikam sees the picture for the first time? In the first case: Yes, an 8bit image of this size will use 512 MB of memory. Dont expect that to change in the near future. In the latter case: Then I assume this has been fixed in libexiv2, which used to allocate lots of memory for large TIFFs in older versions.
This problem occurred during the initial scan. I have not recently retested this problem, but I'll try to get to it soon.
We need feedback using a recent version. 2.0.0 RC is out, please test... Thanks in advance Gilles Caulier
New digiKam 4.11.0 is available. https://www.digikam.org/node/740 Can you reproduce the problem with this release ? Gilles Caulier
With digiKam 5.0.0, this problem is not reproducible. I close this file now. Don't hesitate to re-open if necessary. Gilles Caulier