Hi everyone !
First : thanks again to everyone involved for this great piece of software !
Sorry for all those bugreports about memory usage I made before (https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/706294 regarding memory filled when using patterns and https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/708274 regarding a slight memory increase without doing anything particular :-) But I may need to fill another one :
I stumbled upon a particular situation yesterday, and I would like to know if you think this is an Inkscape issue, or just a twisted use case.
I wanted to import about 35 jpg pictures (from an old digital camera, so not huge resolutions but still). Inkscape managed to import and display them. I moved them onto the canvas and worked for about 2 minutes and then my hardisk started spinning tremendously, and the kernel shot down Inkscape. (I have no SWAP and 4 GB or ram)
I tried to load my document again, and noticed Inscape was almost filling my 4 GB of ram. I tried to do the very same thing with OpenOffice draw and the memory usage was "only" of 0.7 GB.
I definitely guess Inkscape is not meant for importing tons of pictures, but I was wondering whether there was some kind of memory leak or waste triggered by this particular scenario and if you think I should make another bugreport ?
(BTW, as I told suv, I would love to contribute to "bounties" to help improve Inkscape -- regarding tasks that wouldn't be performed otherwise, like tedious memory optimization... :-)
Cheers ! Mahen