Mental Case: Memory Hog
Really confused. Just upgraded from a Macbook Air to a Macbook Pro with 8 gb of RAM ....and still Mental case is draining all my memory and slowing to a halt by the end of the day. Also....When I used mental case on the air I had to go into activity monitor to quit the program.....guess what? Sure enough first day of heavy mental case usage on the new mac....tried to quit, but had to resort to quitting via activity monitor again. Is there any way in a future update you could improve the stability of the program? The mental case before 2.0 was so much lighter of a load on the computer....I almost MISS it!
Let me know if you have any suggestions to improve my experience, I use mental case for medical school (12 hours + a day making/studying cards!
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Support Staff 1 Posted by drewmccormack on 11 Jan, 2012 08:39 AM
It's best not to kill the app, even if it is taking time. You are likely killing it right when it is saving data, and that can lead to data corruption.
I'm not sure what could be causing the issues. We are always looking at possible performance improvements. Unfortunately it's a balance: use lots of RAM to make the app faster, or use less RAM, but make the app slower due to reading from the disk more. MC 2.0 is a lot more complex than MC 1.9 internally, and there is a cost to that, I'm afraid. Features cost performance.
If you think the app works better after a relaunch, maybe that is a good approach for now. Just quit every few hours. I'm not sure that is really the case. It may well be that it seems that way, but is just a coincidence, due to other activity in the system.
Let us know if you notice that the app slows down due to a particular activity, which we may be able to isolate and improve.
Kind regards,
Drew
drewmccormack closed this discussion on 11 Jan, 2012 08:39 AM.