On Thu, Dec 25, 2025 at 09:49:03AM +0200, matan wrote: > On Thu, Dec 25, 2025 at 12:19 AM Scott Kostyshak <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Matan, do you use previews (for math or other)? Do you change the zoom > > level a lot (we ask since when you change zoom, it regenerates the > > previews). > > > > We're trying to get an idea of what might be the cause of the memory use. > > > > Scott > > > > Hello Scott, I do use previews sometimes but not a heavy use, and i've used > them for a few versions (and more so before) but this issue only happened > with 2.4.4. > Also i don't change the zoom at all, only accidentally. > > I haven't managed to find out the reason yet, the process goes like this so > far, every couple of minutes (5-15 minutes) lyx start to become > unresponsive, if i check the task manager when that happens i can see that > RAM usage of lyx goes up by a few hundreds MB, if left untouched it still > does it so it happens regardless of human unput, and it's also unbounded > (as said in original message it once got to 6GB and would've continued if i > didn't close it) > closing the program and opening it back up resets the RAM usage.
Thanks, Matan. It might be helpful to know if you can reproduce if you turn previews off. Even if you don't use them much, I still wonder if they could be causing problems. Scott
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