Remember that JPEG is compressed, and that in memory each pixel requires 24 bits (3 bytes). So, a 3000x3000 image is 25MB in RAM. Seventy of them is 1.7GB.
In order to speed up the export, Shotwell uses background threads to parallelize the process, uone thread per CPU. I suspect that's the issue here -- too many export operations at once eating up a lot of RAM. I forgot to mention before, I've ticketed your problem here: http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/7115 We'll leave this open ... it probably makes sense to reduce the number of background operations to keep memory usage reasonable. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1191585 Title: Crash when exporting photos to a directory To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/shotwell/+bug/1191585/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
