Runaway memory consumption during copy-paste operation

Jürgen Spitzmüller jspitzm at gmail.com
Wed Aug 14 15:17:52 UTC 2024


Am Mittwoch, dem 14.08.2024 um 11:56 -0300 schrieb Rudi Gaelzer:
> Since the last update, I noticed something that must be some kind of
> bug.
> I frequently edit LyX files (exercise lists, tests, etc) employing
> copy-paste 
> operations from earlier files.
> Since the last update, I noticed that very frequently a copy
> operation will 
> hang the box, starting to first consume all available RAM and then
> all 
> available swap, rendering thus the machine almost completely
> unresponsive.
> The only thing I can do then is to kill the lyx process.
> 
> This happened already with two different machines (notebook and
> desktop), both 
> with the same configuration.  All the times this happened, the
> original copied 
> text was inside a branch.  I don't know if this is relevant.
> 
> Has anyone ran into the same problem?

Maybe this one?
https://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/13069

-- 
Jürgen


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