Out Of Memory Crash Exporting File Series
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#110 Out Of Memory Crash Exporting File Series
I am attempting to create a movie of my solar eclipse pictures and use Lynkeos to (successfully) align them all. Unfortunately, when I go to export the images as a file sequence, the application runs out of memory and crashes (it will actually crash MacOS if I let it). I notice that the TIFF writer has a "retain" attribute and I'm wondering if that's causing it to keep every TIFF image in memory (I'm not an Objective C expert). I was going to attempt a fix, but I don't think I know enough about how the classes are instantiated to do that.
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Anonymous
This is not really a memory leak, because the memory is freed at the very end of the file sequence export.
But during the export, memory usage indeed grow continuously; and if it grows to a point were it consumes all macOS memory, the difference with a real memory leak is purely theoretical.
Autoreleased objects need to be released at each loop iteration, because they are no longer needed for the next one.
And the SER exporter is plagued by the same default.
Fixed at commit [148d84]
Last edit: Jean-Etienne LAMIAUD 2025-06-10
Fixed in V3.9 release