Excessive memory usage

[Robby Stephenson]

On Friday 28 July 2006 6:43, Art Alexion wrote:
> My problem is that tellico uses a tremendous amount of memory.  It runs
> quickly enough, but saving takes very long, and with every save it grabs
> more memory that it doesn't give back.  I have input about 10% of my CD
> collection into a DB and saving uses so much memory that I have to
> restart tellico after every save.  (I have 320548 kB plus 500432 kB
> swap).  A single save reaches about 95% of total (RAM + swap) memory.

Maybe a quick FAQ entry is warranted. :)

I've fixed a few memory leaks in the last couple of months on the trunk 
branch, so perhaps that improves the situation. Other than that, my only 
other suggestion is to save the images to the app directory rather than in 
the data file. That would help the save times, which is unrelated to RAM 
usage. With my personal collection, which has about 700 book covers, I 
don't get the memory usage that multiple people have reported, and valgrind 
doesn't tell me a lot right now, so I'm at a loss.

I hope to have a pre-release of version 1.2 out in a few weeks, so maybe 
that will help.

Robby