Indexing Causes Container To Be Killed 💀

[P-Verbrugge]

What does not work as expected?

When importing "originals", facenet is loaded. It seems that facenet is not loading properly or doing something and then crashes:

time="2021-11-09T18:45:53+01:00" level=info msg="faces: loading facenet"
/entrypoint.sh: line 94: 9 Killed "$@"

After the crash it restarts

How can we reproduce it?

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Install PhotoPrism on Raspberry Pi OS (on a pi 4) with docker. Use container: photoprism/photoprism:latest
2. Upload folders to your drive
3. Login into PhotoPrism.
4. Go to library -> Orignals
5. Start the import and watch the logs. Crash happens after facenet loading.

What behavior do you expect?

I expected the originals to be imported

What version you are using?

PhotoPrism 211018-e200f322-Linux-armv7

[P-Verbrugge]

My Pi has 4GB ram. I have not set the swap file. Not sure how to do that.

[lastzero]

Follow the link in our docs on https://docs.photoprism.org/getting-started/raspberry-pi/ to learn more about swap:
https://opensource.com/article/18/9/swap-space-linux-systems

Your device should have at least 4 GB of memory. Also make sure it has at least 4 GB of swap configured, so that indexing doesn't cause restarts when there are memory usage spikes.

[lastzero]

See also:

• PhotoPrism Container Crashing #1390
• OOM when transcoding video #1503
• Docker ARM64 version - crash when try to index #1094
• Uploading a RAW file crashes the app #900
• Server crash while importing files from import folder - error reading communication packets #876
• Docker - indexing causes container to be killed #762

[P-Verbrugge]

Thanks. I have my test setup running. It seems stable. Hopefully my production machine will do the same. :-)

[lastzero]

Glad to hear that! See https://docs.photoprism.org/funding/ for how to support our work.

[lastzero]

Added this to our Troubleshooting Guide: https://docs.photoprism.org/getting-started/troubleshooting/#adding-swap