Gnucash 2.4.7 Beta for OSX Lion

[David Reed]

On Aug 10, 2011, at 8:12 PM, John Ralls wrote:

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> On Aug 10, 2011, at 2:24 PM, davelist at mac.com wrote:
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>> On Aug 10, 2011, at 3:44 PM, James Burton wrote:
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>>> Thanks for the update, John! 
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>>> This is a beta release and I have found what seems to be a bug.  Every time I open or switch account registers, the performance degrades.  It isn't so bad when I first open the program, but as I continue to use it, it gets worse.  After opening and switching between accounts several times, each new change uses 100% of the CPU and "beach balls" the program for a few seconds. After a very short period of time, the program is unusable. Also, GnuCash consumes a lot of memory (200GB+) in the process.
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>>> This was not happening in the first "patch" that involved the new libiconv and libgdk-quartz and it is not happening in the MacPorts/X11 version (FWIW). 
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>>> Jim
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>> FWIW, I'm not seeing the huge memory use (it seems to stay about 100MB real memory and 150MB virtual), but after switching tabs a few times it goes from near instantaneous to about 2 seconds to switch to a new tab.
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> That's just switching already open tabs, not closing and reopening? That sounds like a memory leak in display logic... and I think I know where it's from and I may have already fixed it. I'll get a new beta up tomorrow or Friday.
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> Regards,
> John Ralls

Yes for me, just switching between open tabs takes about 2 seconds after I've switched between a couple. As always, I'll be happy to try the new beta after you post it's ready.

Thanks,
Dave