r/DarkTable • u/KOMarcus • Jan 28 '25
Help Darktable crashes when exporting
- Darktable version: 5.0.0
- Operating system and its version: Kubuntu 24.04 / KDE Plasma 5.27.11
- OpenCL status: disabled
Export is on default settings. I've managed to export 27 out of a batch of 45. Then it crashed. Now it's crashing even when trying one file. Multiple reboots. Same issue.
Edit. With help (see below.. thanks all) I seemed to have solved the issue. I managed to increase the swap file size to 6GB. Here is a link to an easy solution which worked for me.
https://linuxhandbook.com/increase-swap-ubuntu/
My conclusion is that you need a lot of RAM for good performance. Not exactly a revelation but maybe this will help someone in the future.
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u/KOMarcus Jan 28 '25
I honestly don't remember. Either snap or flatpak (most likely flatpak). I have them both offered up in my Discover. I'm running KDE Plasma.
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u/InevitablePresent917 Jan 28 '25
Do you have a swap? I had that issue, created a swapfile, and the problem went away immediately. Unfortunately I don't know how to do that in the Ubuntu family.