SUMMARY Gwenwiew may take all and more that it ram if it opened in directory wich hawe too much pictures (gwenview start makeing previevs of all pictures in directory untill all pictures will be processed) STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Create a directory with many pictures 2. Open any picture in it with Gwenview 3. Look how you ram will be whiped with Gwenview while it creates previevs for all pictures OBSERVED RESULT Nearly whole system start lagging and working slow since it had to move some gvenwiew ram in swap EXPECTED RESULT Gwenview will load only some pictures from directory and will load/process extra as i will change inside gwenviver SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Linux/KDE Plasma: 5.4.105-1-MANJARO / Plasma 5.21.3 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION I not a coder, but something is telling me that you will had to do some ram usage limither wich will halt extra images processing untill user will scroll near to end of processed pictures
Relevant information from IRC: ”no realy, i hawe like 40+ thousands pictures” It might be useful to also say how much RAM your system has.
free total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 4895 1497 2015 39 1382 3111 Swap: 24575 247 24328
This is in the process of being fixed with https://invent.kde.org/graphics/gwenview/-/merge_requests/49.