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york824

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Registered: 2008-11-26

Posts: 77

Digikam uses ~1GB Ram, is it normal?

It uses ~350MB when it starts, and after browsing & editing some photos, it goes over 960MB.
As a result I have to quit the program before I start another memory-consuming application like virtualbox.

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: Digikam uses ~1GB Ram, is it normal?

Please post the output of 'free -m' while you're doing some heavy lifting w/ Virtualbox or Digikam.

york824

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Registered: 2008-11-26

Posts: 77

Re: Digikam uses ~1GB Ram, is it normal?

Please post the output of 'free -m' while you're doing some heavy lifting w/ Virtualbox or Digikam.

Before starting digikam:

             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:          3899       3291        608          0        655       1339
-/+ buffers/cache:       1297       2602
Swap:            0          0          0

when it starts:

             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:          3899       3668        231          0        662       1350
-/+ buffers/cache:       1656       2243
Swap:            0          0          0

5min after:

             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:          3899       3754        145          0        655       1219
-/+ buffers/cache:       1879       2020
Swap:            0          0          0

in "top":

PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND                                                                                                
 9103 zhangyou  20   0 1843m 608m  62m S   0 15.6   3:21.67 digikam 

If I keep using it the memory usage keeps going up. Yesterday I saw a peak at ~1000MB. So I am wondering if it is a normal thing so that I don't have to worry about it.

tenlegger

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From: West Yorkshire, England

Registered: 2009-12-18

Posts: 39

Re: Digikam uses ~1GB Ram, is it normal?

I've used digiKam for many years and I've given up worrying about it being a memory and a cpu hog. This is normal which is a pity because it's a brilliant app.

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york824

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Registered: 2008-11-26

Posts: 77

Re: Digikam uses ~1GB Ram, is it normal?

I've used digiKam for many years and I've given up worrying about it being a memory and a cpu hog. This is normal which is a pity because it's a brilliant app.

.\\artin

Good to hear that. I love this app very much so I would as well stop worrying.