Bug report #14792

Memory leak with big Shapefile

Added by Michael Douchin over 8 years ago. Updated over 8 years ago.

Status:Closed
Priority:Normal
Assignee:-
Category:Data Provider
Affected QGIS version:2.14.2 Regression?:No
Operating System: Easy fix?:No
Pull Request or Patch supplied:No Resolution:
Crashes QGIS or corrupts data:No Copied to github as #:22749

Description

I have just found a memory leak in QGIS Desktop (and server) with the project available in [1] ( a 20Mo tar.bz2 )

This is a very simple project with only one buildings Shapefile ( SHP 68Mo). This layer has been exported from PostGIS from a query wich aimed to simplify the building for fast rendering.

The geometries have been simplified ( I used SnapToGrid, then (St_Dump(St_Union(a.geom))) to remove as many nodes as possible )

The layers has ~ 700 000 features.

steps to reproduce the bug, and the precautions to take :

  • open the project in QGIS 2.14 ( I have not tested with older versions)
  • open a terminal and use this kind of command to monitor QGIS memory consumption : htop, or ps with
    watch -n1 'ps -aux --sort -pmem | head -5'
  • Navigate through the project by zooming in and out, pan, etc. I think you emphasize the memory leak by displaying the layer at small scale ( with many buildings displayed)
  • Be aware that this will increase the memory, so keep an eye on the memory consumption so that your system has enough free memory to work properly.

I have no memory leak when using the same dataset in PostGIS ( tested by importing the Shapefile in PostGIS with shape2pgsql )

[1] https://framadrop.org/r/_7VsZtvzdU#+eJHHPPOIdVcgj/AUp8V91T9m6gmO7/XCh6uOhzP7ro=

History

#1 Updated by Giovanni Manghi over 8 years ago

  • Status changed from Open to Feedback

fixed in master, correct?

#2 Updated by Michael Douchin over 8 years ago

  • Priority changed from High to Normal
  • Status changed from Feedback to Closed

It has indeed been fixed in master and backported to release 2.14

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