Memory Problem

[Bob Brush]

I am experiencing huge jumps in memory usage with each autosave, usually 
on the order of 100 - 200 meg per save, it took me a while to figure out 
a trigger.  The initial symptons were sluggish reponse, so I opened  the 
system monitor to see what was causing the slow down and noticed gnucash 
using 1.5G of memory, usually it is only 200meg or so.

My test situation:

Open Gnucash, find any random invoice, unpost it, and press the save 
button.  Notice the memory jump.  Now post it and save, another memory 
jump.  You can continue to toggle and save as the memory goes out of 
control.  It seems to get unstable around 2.5 Gig of memory, but that 
could be related to available memory?

Saturday I was running r21570 when I noticed the problem, Sunday I 
uninistalled and pulled a new r22007, but same problem. I thought it 
might be from an incomplete uninstall, so I performed a make uninstall 
then manually deleted the folders left over.  Convinced I had a fresh 
slate I reinstalled, but had the same results.  Today I tried to open 
the file at work, using a different computer and different version of 
gnucash, but it informed me that because it is from a newer version of 
gnucash it wouldn't be able to open.  So I uninstalled the old one, then 
installed the new version, r22012.  It has the same problem, although 
this is a different machine.  I also created a new test file, only 4k, 
and it has a similar memory problem, although only 1-2 meg of memory at 
a time, so after toggling 10 or so times it was only up to 60meg of 
memory, after starting around 40meg, not good, but it would take days 
before it was a problem..

OS: Linux 3.2.3-2.fc16.i686.PAE #1 SMP Fri Feb 3 19:57:53 UTC 2012 i686 
i686 i386 GNU/Linux

Can anyone confirm a similar problem?  I am wondering if this problem is 
program or file related.

My file size, if that is important:
4.6m Feb 4
4.5m Jan 24
4.4m Jan 10
4.3m Dec 20



Thanks, Bob

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Bob