On Sunday 02 January 2011 20:46:40 Fletcher Johnson wrote:
Hi all,
I am a new user. When I run Inkscape on Windows Vista, it starts fast, then runs slower and slower.
If I open task manager and look at processes, I can see the Memory (Private Working Set) - and as I watch it just keeps increasing. When I start Inkscape, it is using about 70 MB of ram.
I load the picture I am editing and it jumps up to 80 MB - still ok. But as soon as I start editing the picture, the memory starts growing - often by 6 MB at a time, until it is using over 1 GB of ram. At that point, I have to exit Inkscape and then either restart the computer or wait about 10-15 min before it actually exists (at least according to task manager.)
All the other programs I watch in task manager have the memory used grow and shrink as they perform various tasks. Only Inkscape keeps growing and by such a large value. And the higher the memory used, the longer it takes for things to happen. Even if I do the same thing (move a group of lines, etc.)
Any idea of what setting I might change to fix this?
Just Me
Sounds like a phenomenon called memory leak. What version of Inkscape are you using?