platypus
July 28, 2024, 9:18am
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Can confirm this issue.
PhotoLab does not terminate the XPCCore processes when exporting has finished. After using about 3/4 of available RAM, further exports need swapping. Only when I quit DPL are the processes terminated and the memory freed.
Second export. Swapping is active
PhotoLab 6 terminated, memory pressure is reduced
Same issue in DPL 7.8, DPL 7.7.1 seems to be okay in this respect.
I have created a ticket for DxO support.
Also check out this topic:
Since upgrading to PhotoLab 7.8.0 yesterday, my computer runs out of RAM when rendering a large batch of photos and I have to force-reboot the computer.
After it has rendered 80 or so photos, I get a popup saying “Your system is running out of memory” and a list of running applications, asking me to pick one to Force Quit. In that list it says PhotoLab is using about 28 GB RAM. Soon thereafter, everything just freezes and I can’t even move the mouse pointer any more. I have to long-press the po…
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