Hi Markus, looks like it's a known Problem: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=11492713
... One of the problems with current digikam is that the thumbnail pixmaps are kept in memory for all the items in the current view. usually users have <300 files per folder, so thats not a big problem. but with tags (and espcially with recursive subtags), you can easily have >1000 pictures in one view. if this number grows too large, you can easily run out of memory. i have been trying to come up with a clean design to handle this problem and here"s a preliminary patch to attempt that, which will keep the memory requirement fairly constant by putting a cap on how many thumbnails are kept in memory. the patch should apply cleanly against current cvs. ... None of the patches commited yet to cvs AFAICS. Have you time/knowledge/patience to build from cvs and try patch#3? I'm still curious how many files you have in one album ;) Achim -- To me vi is Zen. To use vi is to practice zen. Every command is a koan. Profound to the user, unintelligible to the uninitiated. You discover truth everytime you use it. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]