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Description of problem: Darktable is leaking memory pretty rapidly in darkroom mode when browsing through pictures. After a dozen pictures, darktable can consume a few GB. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 1.fc15 How reproducible: All the time Steps to Reproduce: 1.Import a folder 2.Display a picture in darkroom, double click on another picture, and another one... 3. Actual results: Memory consumption increases constantly and rapidly. Expected results: Additional info: Tested with both JPEG and NEF
and when you click back on an already opened picture, is the memory increasing? I try to reproduce the problem on my Fedora 16, I get the same result but I'm not sure it's a memory leak, could be just a cache system.
(In reply to comment #1) > and when you click back on an already opened picture, is the memory increasing? > No. > I try to reproduce the problem on my Fedora 16, I get the same result but I'm > not sure it's a memory leak, could be just a cache system. It probably is, the problem being that after ten 12px images, the memory usage is 2.1G even if I set low memory usage limits (800MB for tiles). And then swapping begins and it becomes unusable and this memory seems never to be freed. Maybe I don't understand how the memory limit works in that case, darktable is just a memory hog and is pretty unusable, even with 4GB of RAM. François.
François, I remember some threads about memory usage in the darktable-devel mailing list. I think you should ask there (or in their archives) about your darktable memory usage, to be sure it's not a memory leak. Not sure I can do anything else since it's not a rpm/fedora issue. I've heard about the 1.0.1 release comming at the end of this month, may be it will adress this issue. I will look for any memory issue in their post-1.0.0 branch.
1.0.3 is in the updates, and it seems more stable with the memory usage. I close this bug but feel free to reopen it if problem persists.