memory consumption problem as collections get bigger

[Robby Stephenson]

On Wednesday 29 October 2008, Doruk Fisek wrote:
> Even if you store all of the collection in RAM, 250 MB consumption for
> a 16 MB xml file (not zipped) seems too much. It's nearly 15 times the
> original size.

A 16 MB XML text file is pretty huge. How many entries?

How are you measuring the memory usage? The virtual column in top includes 
all the KDE libraries, etc. 

I have a test file with 10k entries that's 5 mb unzipped. The shared column 
in top shows 20 m usage.

> > Are there images in the tc file? That's what really bogs things down,
> > too.
>
> There are none. I know it does, that's why I didn't put any (though I
> wanted to).

Are you loading the images at all? I mean, do you have a visible column with 
the images, or using the icon view or anything? It's possible the image 
cache is not working correctly, and the loaded pixmaps, etc. aren't being 
freed, I guess.

Robby