hai everyone,

I am trying to import large number of images into my mainwindow(for a photo management application) more than 5k images. But since when u try to load those many images the ram and the swap are completely filled. and it gives out of memory error.
Also when loading limited collections(i expect the images to be displayed on runtime when the images are being imported but the images are'nt displayed on runtime and only displayed after the loading is complete.And the main window gets blurred until then.

I am using qlistwidgetitem(icon mode) to display the images.and the icons are of standard 50*50 size.

how could i accomodate largenumber of images(above 5k as i mentioned earlier) and how can I load the listwidgetitems load at run time? (Fedora core 8,Qt 4.3.4)

Thanks in advance

srihari