Log files and swap space

[Ronald Roth]

Hello,

I am in the process of moving my bookkeepping from Emma to GnuCash. I've 
noticed that each time I make a new entry in GnuCash, a little bit more swap
space is used. After about 50 entries, my entire swap(80 M) is used up, and
exitting GnuCash doesn't free up the space. My computer is essentially slowed
to a swapping crawl until I restart X. Is this a memory leak in GnuCash? is
there anything I can do to prevent this behavior? I have GnuCash 1.4.10 on
RH 7.0 with Gnome.

Also, after exiting GnuCash, my desktop is littered with files named
"accounts.gnucash.20010215223111.log, accounts.gnucash.20010215224806.xac, 
accounts.gnucash.b7183e08.15422.LNK" etc. What is the purpose of these files,
and can I make GnuCash clean them up? or at least put them somewhere else?
or perhaps not create them at all?

Thanks a lot!
-Ron Roth
rroth@uiuc.edu