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[Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>]

2015-01-19 12:21 GMT+01:00 LordBlick <lordblick@xxxxxxxxx>:
> In response to a message written on 19.01.2015, 07:00, from Bob Gustafson:
>>
>> Might be a memory leak - takes 20 seconds to use all available memory..
>>
>> Does it unfreeze by itself, or do you have to kill the process - perhaps
>> from another computer via ssh ?
>
> OS is stable and responsible, only eeschema is „pondering”… Dig bitcoin ? ;)
> Freeze is about 20s, so after it GUI or in real canvas returns to
> responsibility.
> This rather is not memory leak, because memory usage meter applet on my
> desktop
> doesn't show any abnormal memory consumption.
> Problem still exist in r5379. Also I've noticed randomly very big delay
> between
> commanding „Exit” (Ctrl+Q) end closing window of eeschema.

Can you replicate this consistently? How? I can not reproduce by
trying som random resistors in my schmatic.

> Some 0.05€ from user view:
> I also noticed that if you edit the schema library in an external editor is
> necessary to fully close the kicad, which seems a little curious. Even in
> very
> old DOS Protel(90's) editor scheme symbols are included in scheme project,
> no
> need any other file(no problems with library paths) to easy share.
> IMHO power lib should be separately selectable, cause eeschema netlist
> generator
> doesn't respect power symbols from other library than power.lib, which has
> too
> large symbols to me and is installed in non user modifiable path in Linux.
> The current editor is poor. Once drawn graphic element can only move or
> delete,
> so I often use an ordinary text editor than that one of kicad.
> I'm going to create own independent libeditor (python of course), if I'll
> find
> more time.