memory never released when switching to a different image. only when xviewer is shut down.

[loongemperor]

I have a folder with a bunch of 1 to 2 MB jpg images.

Opening one of them makes xviewer take 64 MB of ram. using the arrow key to load the next image doubles that. and every additional picture afterwards increases it by 20 to 32 MB. if you go through all the images in a folder it will loop back to the first one, but looping still wastes ram as if it is a new picture and not a repeat of a previously loaded picture.

As a result, if you do not shut down xviewer occasionally but are constantly scrolling through images, it will eventually consume all RAM and hard freeze linux mint. necessitating a hard reset because nothing is responding.

==version==
xviewer 3.4.16
mint: 22.3 x64

[GreyLimit]

Had something similar to this this morning; xviewer open, lots of images (>100), stepping through them one-by-one (rotating the occasional image) when the machine freezes solid. However, the mouse is still movable, but very, very slowly. Eventually (after several minutes) the machine pops back into life as xviewer goes away. Looking through the output from dmesg would seem to indicate that xviewer consumed all available memory and swap space before being killed off through memory allocation failure. This is not the first time this has happened to me in the last few weeks. I'll capture the dmesg output next time. Jeff.

[Isolator70]

Can confirm on same setup as TE: Today I reviewed a bunch of pictures (some hundreds) each between 7 and 10MB. After some time PC with 16GB RAM froze.
Does nobody test such software prior release - this is really annoying....