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cybmole · 10-04-2011, 02:34 PM

as said before I do NOT use news, or periodic tasks.

idle should mean idle, not growing in footprint - lets see where it's at now - ... 198mb. I've not touched calibre since posting that it was at 190mb, & remember I started with it at circa 106mb yesterday morning.

i call this a (small) memory leak!

not enough to cause me problems but sufficient to demonstate that something somewhere needs fixing. ( but could be an issue with python as implemented in windows, not with calibre per se)

actually, the reason it's not caused me problems ever is that once a week the program gets closed & updated, which sets it back to circa 100Mb. if not for that it , & with an always-on PC, it could well go on climbing until it gobbles up huge amounts of RAM.

PS calibre surely does not hold the entire library in RAM - there are folks on here with 10,000+ books allegedly - & their loading times would be extreme if 10,000 files had to be opened & read.

so the reason I'm at 195 but you are at 240 is that your program has been active for longer, not 'cos you have more books ?

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cybmole Wizard Posts: 3,720 Karma: 1759970 Join Date: Sep 2010 Device: none	as said before I do NOT use news, or periodic tasks. idle should mean idle, not growing in footprint - lets see where it's at now - ... 198mb. I've not touched calibre since posting that it was at 190mb, & remember I started with it at circa 106mb yesterday morning. i call this a (small) memory leak! not enough to cause me problems but sufficient to demonstate that something somewhere needs fixing. ( but could be an issue with python as implemented in windows, not with calibre per se) actually, the reason it's not caused me problems ever is that once a week the program gets closed & updated, which sets it back to circa 100Mb. if not for that it , & with an always-on PC, it could well go on climbing until it gobbles up huge amounts of RAM. PS calibre surely does not hold the entire library in RAM - there are folks on here with 10,000+ books allegedly - & their loading times would be extreme if 10,000 files had to be opened & read. so the reason I'm at 195 but you are at 240 is that your program has been active for longer, not 'cos you have more books ? Last edited by cybmole; 10-04-2011 at 02:43 PM.