I tried doing what you suggested. I went though 26 slides, since it seemed to be enough to get an indication of the behavior.

(Just to clarify - I opened the next one (from within the current one), then closed the current one - if I had closed the current one first, the memory would be cleared)

The memory used seems to be roughly equivalent between inkscape and inkview, although inkview does use less. Either way though, the memory keeps going up as I go through more slides.

I attached three files to this email - the result of doing the command:

ps aux | grep -e "inkview" >> memory.txt; free -m >> memory.txt

for three cases:

memory_inkview.txt: after I clicked the right arrow to advance each slide, I ran the command.

memory_one_per_time.txt: I did what you suggested, and opened each file in inkscape, then closed the old one, running the command for each new file.

memory_all_open.txt: I opened each file in inkscape, but didn't close the previous file, so by the end, I had 26 files open at once. I ran the command after each file was opened.

Thanks for your help, Rich.

On Thu, 2005-05-05 at 19:38 -0300, bulia byak wrote:

On 5/5/05, Richard Kowalczyk <richk@...805...> wrote:

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I will be glad to do anything else that anyone thinks will help explain the memory usage.

Can you try loading these same files in turn (i.e. closing the previous one when loading the next) into Inkscape instead of Inkview and see if there is a noticeable difference?