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[Paul Rodman]

On May 1, 2009, at 06:45 AM, Anthony Tripodi wrote:

> OK. So we're still alive. Excellent!
>
> In that case...
>
> I just tried to print an observing list from .b35. I got at first a  
> printing wizard and was allowed to choose what I wanted. When I  
> selected "Print" I got first the little wristwatch, then the  
> spinning beachball of death. The beachball lasted maybe 3 minutes as  
> page 1 was announced, then page 2 went through the same sequence, as  
> did page 3.
>
> At the end of the sequence a preview was indeed produced, but any  
> movement of the mouse to manipulate the window resulted in the  
> spinning beachball of death for about a minute or so.
>
> Now, as long as this preview window is alive, any other application  
> that I happen to use (Mail, for example) results in the same very  
> slow operation accompanied by the spinning beachball. When I  
> canceled the print preview (same slow response, but a successful  
> operation) all other operations returned to normal.
>
> I'm running a Mac Intel Core 2 Duo at 2.4 GHz, 1 GB SDRAM, and 4 MB  
> L2 cache. Software is OS X, 10.5.6.

That's usually a sign (on the Mac) of virtual memory thrashing, which  
might be a problem with 1GB RAM, or might be a disk problem. I have  
just fixed a major memory leak (30MB+ every time you close a plan  
doc), which might also be a problem if you had been opening and  
closing multiple plan docs, and/or those plan docs are large. See if  
you can reproduce the problem. I am currently working on some printing  
issues, so it might be an idea to wait for V2.0b36 later today  
(probably) and see if the problem persists.

Paul R.