High memory usage when scanning directory containing non-music files

[Mike Chelen]

When scanning a directory to add to the music collection, Exaile will use very large amounts of memory (200, 300, 400mb+) if there are many non-music files.

For example a directory that contains about 50gb of music and 250gb of other files (videos, software .iso's) will start scanning and then quickly use more and more memory until the system becomes unresponsive and the process must be killed.

Tested with Exaile version 0.3.1.999-rc1 on Ubuntu 10.04

[Vality (r-matt-q)]

I can confirm I also suffer from this bug and can confirm also affects exaile 0.3.2.1. A workaround which seems to work is to delete the ~/.cache/exaile and ~/.local/share/exaile directories and then re-scanning the entire music collection in one go as the memory usage seems to be lower on the initial scan as opposed to incremental ones.

[Dustin Spicuzza (dustin-virtualroadside)]

Exaile 0.3.2.1 is no longer supported, and neither is this bug tracker. Please upgrade to Exaile 3.4.3, and if the problem persists, file a bug on github at https://github.com/exaile/exaile/issues/new