Hello,
Oxygen seems very slow to restore when I've been using other applications. I
understand that restoring from the page file can take time, but it seems
really slow compared to other programs.
Today I looked at the Task Manager during the Oxygen restore. The memory size
of the Oxygen process was increasing at roughly .5MB/second, and was up near
200MB! And there was only one file open -- a small XSL stylesheet! (I had
previously had about 6 or 7 stylesheets open -- none of them large.)
It seems strange that Oxygen would need so much memory.
I looked in the documentation for tips on performance, and it tells how to set
the amount of memory available to the JVM, but doesn't indicate how to know
what value to set it to. I guess I must have it on high since it was able to
allocate over 200MB of space (oxygen.bat uses the -Xmx256m cmd-line option).
Would it help to lower this setting?
FWIW my laptop has 384MB RAM, and is running WinXP SP2. Windows has 600+MB of
swap space on the drive. I'm running on power, not battery, so that's not an
issue. I've just completely defragged my hard drive, so I know that's not the
problem.
These waits happen not only when I return to Oxygen from running other
programs, but also when I return to a different buffer (file) in Oxygen that I
haven't visited for a while, or use a function (like Find) for the first time
in a while. After the wait, Oxygen runs pretty fast, but the waits are
aggravating.
Any suggestions? Other than more RAM (which I'm considering).
Lars
