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rodgoslin · 06-17-2010, 08:49 PM

I've been using Calibre for some time and have so far, found it extremely useful and user friendly. Until, that is I updated it to rev 0.7.2. At that instant, it changed from being all of the above to something that gobbled up machine resource and slowed the machine down to a snails pace. I'm running Calibre in Mandriva Linux ver 2010.0, on a machine with plenty of resource. On opening Calibre, the system monitor showed that memory allocation rose to encompass the entire amount of RAM (4 GB) and then went on to fill the SWAP to 4GB, without even filling the screen display, which took several minutes to complete. During this time, the system monitor showed that one core of the four core Athlon CPU was running continuously at 100%. When the screen became available, the CPU usage went down.Selecting a file sent it back up again for about five minutes. Selecting edit meta date, another five minutes. All this time, to the accompaniment of grumbles from the HDD the SWAP space was slowly filling up. It reached 5GB before I lost patience.
Is there any way of going back to the revision of Calibre before this one?. I'd hate to stop using it, but at the present it's just unuseable.

Rod Goslin

06-17-2010, 08:49 PM	#1
rodgoslin Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: North Wales Device: iRiver Story	Is it just me? or... I've been using Calibre for some time and have so far, found it extremely useful and user friendly. Until, that is I updated it to rev 0.7.2. At that instant, it changed from being all of the above to something that gobbled up machine resource and slowed the machine down to a snails pace. I'm running Calibre in Mandriva Linux ver 2010.0, on a machine with plenty of resource. On opening Calibre, the system monitor showed that memory allocation rose to encompass the entire amount of RAM (4 GB) and then went on to fill the SWAP to 4GB, without even filling the screen display, which took several minutes to complete. During this time, the system monitor showed that one core of the four core Athlon CPU was running continuously at 100%. When the screen became available, the CPU usage went down.Selecting a file sent it back up again for about five minutes. Selecting edit meta date, another five minutes. All this time, to the accompaniment of grumbles from the HDD the SWAP space was slowly filling up. It reached 5GB before I lost patience. Is there any way of going back to the revision of Calibre before this one?. I'd hate to stop using it, but at the present it's just unuseable. Rod Goslin