Cursor movement REALLY slow..

[RickF]

Alex,

I've been wondering about this for a while.. I usually leave HE up and running for days and lately I've been finding that if I hold down the left or right arrow, that the cursor moves REALLY slowly -- something on the order of 2 characters per second or so..  The same thing happens if I just hold down any key while in a buffer.. I tried changing some of the settings for the Code completion but that didn't help.. Any ideas?  I've not restarted HE in the off chance you want me to look at something.. I did fire up a 2nd copy of HE and it works fine.. I'm wondering if perhaps there's some sort of memory leak or ??

In the Task Manager, one HE is taking up 43M of RAM and the other is only taking 26.5M of RAM -- both are using the same project and open files.

[alex]

43 or 26 megs - it is nothing. That can happen that some cache is filled in HE which runs for a while or you have a lot of stuff in Undo.

It is not really easy to say what is a reason for such slowing down. I would not say it is a memory. I seen such effect for very long lines,  but in that case it 100% reproducible.
Probably some linear search/check, which was not caught (because of the some specific parameters).
I need to be able to reproduce it to get it. The only thing which can help here, is putting aside HE pdbs and try to run some profiler to see which functions consumes most.
If delays would be longer than several seconds, you can use Process Explorer, which shows call stack for a process too.

[RickF]

Ok.. For me it's probably easier to just restart HE once in a while.. I believe this slow one I've got now has been running for more than a week and being used daily.. The 2nd copy I fired up is much more peppy (as it ought to be)..Thx!