Thanks for your response. Actually I had considered mentioning "memory leak" in the title, but it seemed a bit alarmist
I have managed to stop it growing continuously by a slightly different modification from the one you suggested. See attachment.
Now it seems stable at around 6 Gb, which is supportable.
My suspicion is that it is related to your use of a large-res color DSLR. I don't own such a beast, but if not me, perhaps someone else can reproduce and debug it.
Actually, I'm not using such a thing. I don't own one either. This is a regular monochrome CMOS astro camera, a Moravian C5A-100M. Other vendors (ZWO, QHY) have the same chip, Sony IMX461ALR. It just happens to have a large area (44x36mm) and small pixels (3.76um).
Could you please document, at least for a few images, how much memory leaking happens? Assuming you can reproduce that, please
- include your log,
- it would be helpful to see your settings (e.g. on Llinux they are in ~/.config/kstarsrc), and a screenshot of that same FITS settings page above.
- Finally, can you include a link to a captured image?
I'll do these things, and thanks for taking the time to investigate. But, some clarifications:
- include your log,
Which log? there are many options in logging, including verbose/normal and separate checkboxes per module.
I'm pretty sure I can find the settings, and a link to a captured image is here:
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/osoakgd9nvf71dnjq...0fq3x1l9bsteb6s&dl=0
Thanks!
Richard