Thanks for the investigation. I did some investigation myself, and it turns out that writing new metadata does leak memory, and this is not linked to exiv2's bug 677. I reported a new bug, https://bugs.launchpad.net/pyexiv2/+bug/581787, and will work to fix it ASAP.
Cheers, Olivier > I did some more investigating and discovered that there is a known > performance issue with exiv2 .19 hanging on nikon jpgs. The exiv2 svn > fixed this bug (with .19 takes about 20secs to write a tag vs .1s with > svn-exiv2). I am also hoping that this resolved the "memory leak" in > pyexiv2. > > The memory leak that I mentioned before only occurred when pyexiv2 was > processing problematic photos, which in turn happened to be all my nikon > dslr photos. > > link to bug report > http://dev.exiv2.org/issues/show/677 > > hope this helps as well > iform > > ps. thank you for the wonderful python binding. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~pyexiv2-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~pyexiv2-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
