On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 11:18:40PM +0200, Donn wrote:
Oh - I recall another thing. When it starts getting really slow, dialogs that are opened (I saw this on the page settings and inkscape settings) are displayed blank. After literally minutes the widgets begin to draw onto the form, but they are all messed-up. I usually grab an edge and jiggle the form and then wait for it to redraw (a long wait). After this happened twice I took to just restarting the app.
That really sounds like a memory leak. As an application starts to use more memory, bits of it get swapped out to the harddrive. When you then try to access those bits, it then has to load from the drive rather than memory, giving you the effects you describe. top is definitely your friend here.
Jeff