And are using Windows or Linux, @anon692560?
I’ve been using the Linux version of Paratext for a while. I do appreciate the ability to run it in a “foss” environment. I’m using Wasta 20.04 (fresh install a few weeks ago), and Paratext recently updated to 9.0.100.10256. I apply system and security updates when Wasta prompts, so I think I’m up to date OS-wise. I’ve got 16 GB of RAM, an i5 @ 2.3 GHz processor–my computer handles most anything quite capably. But Paratext–and to much the same extent, FLEX–is almost unbearably slow.
It takes about two hours for Paratext to use up 1.7 GB of memory or more, at which point any task becomes a struggle–click something and wait and wait and wait long enough that you begin to wonder if your click really registered; type and not be sure where you’re at in the word or if you made a mistake because it takes a few seconds for the text to appear; and so on. At 2.0 GB, it’s time to shut PT down and start the climb up “memory mountain” all over again… [It has become my practise to shut down anything I don’t absolutely need open when I’m working in PT–browser, word processor, even Logos (which is counter-productive…)–just to free up memory. Not that I would have thought 2 GB out of 16 would be a deal breaker.]
When it comes to shutting down PT it means going into System Monitor and clicking “End Process”, because even after Paratext disappears from the screen it stays resident and has one of the processor cores pegged at 100% (25% of total). I left it for a few hours once, and the process never ended on its own… [I have submitted logs for this, but I don’t know what ever came of that.]
I had hoped that upgrading to Wasta 20.04 and Paratext 9.0.100 would help, but it’s pretty much the same as my experience with Wasta 18.04 and earlier versions of PT. Unfortunately, it hasn’t helped. I had been wondering if this is just my experience, but I’ve heard from a few other Linux users that it’s the same for them. And now you, @anon692560… I’m interested to learn if there’s anything we can do to improve the situation.