On 26 Oct 2008, at 8:54 PM, Justin C. Walker wrote: > > On Oct 25, 2008, at 14:24 , Adam M. Goldstein wrote: > >> Hello all, >> >> I wonder how the nightlies are working out for people. If the major >> outstanding issues have been resolved---for instance, Adam mentioned >> that there were some issues with the Tiger nightlies---then let's >> start voting on whether it's time for a new release. > > The latest nightly (1022) seems to be OK. A minor item: > > Each time I quit, I get this in the system log: > > 08/10/26 12:45:50 PM BibDesk[5915] Application will quit without > finishing writing metadata cache. > > Is this significant? >
It's not very significant. It means that BD wasn't yet finished the cache that's used for spotlight searches, that's all. > The problems I was having with preview seem to be gone. One possible > glitch I noticed was that the first time I ran 1022, one thing I > checked was TeX preview for all items in my .bib (531). The preview > was generated, but afterwards, the CPU kept churning. I ran top, and > saw BibDesk gaining steam (635% CPU utilization - it's a Dual 4-core > Xeon system, so that's possible). At one point, the CPU meter showed > all 8 CPUs pegged at max. > I can't say whether that's good or bad, it depends on what it's doing. There are a few legitimate processes that may be using (significant) CPU power in the background, such as file content searches and spotlight metadata generation. When this happens again, you could take a sample (launch Activity Monitor, select BibDesk, and choose View > Sample Process, save it, and send it off-list to Adam Maxwell or me). Christiaan > No error messages, no apparent problems. I could not get the problem > to repeat, even when I trashed and reinstalled that version. > > Justin > > -- > Justin C. Walker, Curmudgeon-At-Large > Institute for the Enhancement of the Director's Income > -------- > When LuteFisk is outlawed, > Only outlaws will have LuteFisk > -------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
