Public bug reported:
When initially trying to import all of my photos (about 27 000, man
RAWs), Shotwell kept crashing. I discovered it ran out of memory during
the operation. I finally managed to get it to finish by increasing my
swap space to 32GB.
However, everytime I launch the application while the "watch library
directory for new files" option is switched on, it starts an auto-import
process (even if there are no new files) and the application ends up
consuming a huge amount of RAM that it never releases. As you can see in
the attached screenshot, the application -- which had been running for
some time, no new photos to import -- is using more than 15GB of memory.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: shotwell 0.12.3-0ubuntu0.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-27.43-generic 3.2.21
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-27-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu11
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Aug 6 18:37:14 2012
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64
(20120425)
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_ZA:en
TERM=xterm
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_ZA.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: shotwell
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
** Affects: shotwell (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug precise running-unity
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Shotwell 0.12.3 consumes massive amount of RAM if auto-import is on
and you have a large photo library
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