Not enough memory

[metallithrax]

I have numerous folders containing around 1000 images. I need to adjust some of these images and I am running into a "Not enough memory" error.

I was just adjusting contrast and gamma on 308 images, and it had completed 273 of them when I got the message. CPU was at 95-100 all the time while processing, memory started at 2.7GB went upto 3.5GB towards the end before the error. I then have to close xnView and reopen to continue with the conversion.

This is what happened:

on opening xnview again, memory at around 25MB, after converting a few images it went upto around 350MB and stayed there even though it wasn't doing anything.

So I ran a small test:

1010 images in folder - all thumbnailed - memory @ 40MB
selected 101 images to convert - contrast 20, gamma 2.20

cpu - 95-99%
memory - 650MB at end of conversion, and continued to rise to 1.1GB even though nothing seemed to be happening within xnView.

Took a couple of minutes to drop down to 50MB.

As you can imagine having this problem and having hundreds of folders containing 800-1100 images, it gets frustrating.

PC Specs:

i5-2400 @ 3.1GHz
4GB RAM
Windows 7 64bit

[xnview]

could you try with browser opened on an empty folder?

[metallithrax]

Done - opens at 5MB, although I don't see how this is going to help with my problem.

[xnview]

Done - opens at 5MB, although I don't see how this is going to help with my problem.

i means could you try the convert with xnview browser closed?

[metallithrax]

Hi

Sorry, misunderstood you.

I have just run a conversion of 202 images with the browser window closed:

started at 38MB, rising to an average of 80-85MB, highest was 125MB. RAM returned to 38MB soon after conversion finished.

The problem with this is that I usually need the browser open to select the images for conversion as not all of them need doing.

[xnview]

With same conversion, if browser is opened same problem??

[metallithrax]

Hi

I have just done a conversion using the same settings that had the problem and everything went fine with memory hovering around 50-55MB. The only difference on the computer is that yesterday I repaired my Acrobat install and turned off the option "allow files in this folder to have contents indexed..." that is under "advanced" on folder properties - for all folders on my computer. Then I turned it back on this morning. And now things seem to be working fine.