(I suppose this should also have gone to the list - not sure what your problem with my mails is, when I L-reply to myself I do get opensuse-support@opensuse.org as send-to....) Patrick Shanahan wrote:

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For me it happens during image processing. The laptop now has 32GB. I still manage to trigger this if I'm not careful....

JFTR, the system is *not* crashed or dead, just totally unresponsive. One can wait until the heavy swap io is over, and the system will be normal again, without *any* notice in the logs.

I do heavy image processing, batches of 1000 raws or more sometime but usually 600-700, youth soccer games. I have been using darktable on openSUSE Tumbleweed for some years now without a problem and am very happy with the software and resulting images. I cannot remember every having a crash or hanging system due to memory use but do have 36gb.

Well, batch processing is not using the whole memory in a go, but does it one by one (I rather refer to this PS/GIMP/Darktable processing as 'Photo Retouching'). I'm really talking about having a 3D data cube of a few hundred 4600x3500 float images and doing stuff like FFT analysis and such on it where you really need access to all data 'at once'.

what software are you using?

I use IDL. I.e., some programing language. Might as well be C or Python... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-support+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-support+owner@opensuse.org