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Why does XnViewMP take up so much RAM?
Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2015 5:16 pm
by borzov
Whenever I look through some heavy pictures the program gradually takes up more and more RAM. At some point pictures become pixelated until it says it can't open any more files. I have to exit and restart the program which is annoying. In ACDSee there was an option "keep previous image in memory/load next image in advance". And XnView seems to keep ALL the pictures in memory for some reason. Maybe there's some option in the settings that I've missed?
Re: Why does XnViewMP take up so much RAM?
Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2015 10:32 pm
by quapurna
Halo.
Have you tried the following option-items:
Settings > View > Misc. > Cache > "Read one image ahead" and "Keep current image" ???
Thanks.
Re: Why does XnViewMP take up so much RAM?
Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2015 7:22 am
by borzov
nope, didn't help
Re: Why does XnViewMP take up so much RAM?
Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2015 1:28 pm
by xnview
Do you open each image as a tab??
Re: Why does XnViewMP take up so much RAM?
Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2015 3:46 pm
by borzov
no, I scroll them
Re: Why does XnViewMP take up so much RAM?
Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2015 9:06 am
by xnview
borzov wrote:no, I scroll them
which format?
Re: Why does XnViewMP take up so much RAM?
Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2015 11:09 am
by borzov
It takes me about 300 MB worth of jpg files (around 1 MB each) in 30 subfolders to reach 1.5 GB of RAM taken up by XnView at which point the "File can't be loaded" error pops up when I try to go from browsing to opening an image (and if I just scroll then the images turn up pixelated - I guess that means they cannot be decompressed).
I gotta say though this is much better then before I unchecked the "keep current image" as quapurna suggested. I guess it's just thumbnails now hanging in memory.
Re: Why does XnViewMP take up so much RAM?
Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2015 2:13 pm
by xnview
yes if you close the browser, same thing?
Re: Why does XnViewMP take up so much RAM?
Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2015 2:30 pm
by borzov
not sure what you mean by browser - if i close XnView browser then i effectively close the whole program, don't I?
BTW I think I jinxed it
Sometimes this happens after only 20 MB worth of images. It's very inconsistent
Re: Why does XnViewMP take up so much RAM?
Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2015 3:59 pm
by xnview
borzov wrote:not sure what you mean by browser - if i close XnView browser then i effectively close the whole program, don't I?
BTW I think I jinxed it
Sometimes this happens after only 20 MB worth of images. It's very inconsistent
no you can open a view tab, and close the browser
Re: Why does XnViewMP take up so much RAM?
Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2015 11:19 pm
by quapurna
borzov, you can have images displayed in different tabs by doing this:
In Browse mode > Menu > View > Tab > Show (checked)
Thanks.
borzov wrote:not sure what you mean by browser - if i close XnView browser then i effectively close the whole program, don't I?
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