memory consumption problem as collections get bigger

[Benny Malengier]

2008/10/29 Robby Stephenson <robby at periapsis.org>

> 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.


If things are in an sqlite embedded database as eg Amarok collection, you
can avoid this. Undo is possible by going back in the database logs. Anyway,
with all the database based apps now, people get used to atomic saves in
apps that handle collections

Benny
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