memory consumption problem as collections get bigger

[Robby Stephenson]

On Wednesday 29 October 2008, Doruk Fisek wrote:
> Hi,
>
>  I'm using Tellico for a music collection, my .tc file is about 2 MB.
> When I unzip it, it's about 16 MB as xml data.
>
>  When I open the file, Tellico consumes about 250 MB of my computer's
> memory. I notice that as the collection grows, so does the memory
> Tellico takes up.
>
>  I can't open this collection on my 512 MB machine with other
> applications running since it causes huge swap activity.
>
>  Is this normal behavior? If so, is there anyway to improve Tellico to
> consume less memory?

It's been a chronic problem for some folks, and I've tried a few things with 
reducing the memory usage, but like you point out, it seems to grow too 
much with respect to the file size.

Tellico holds all the collection data in RAM once the file is opened. That's 
obviously not going to work well with really big collections, it's just the 
way I wrote it. If you delete your data file once it's loaded, Tellico can 
save it again completely.

Are there images in the tc file? That's what really bogs things down, too.

Robby