Re: RDP issues: Should I upgrade from 8,0,3?

On Thu, 28 Feb 2013, at 11:27:48, Edmund Reinhardt <edmund.reinhardt@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

My $.02 is that the memory leak and content assist issues mentioned are all
due to the new live model that is supporting live outline view and live
content assist and hovers.
If you have 8.5.1 installed you can turn off the live outline view using
the Preference on Remote Systems->IBM i Parsers->ILE RPG "Update the
Outline view when text is changed in the editor". There is a shortcut to
the preference right in the outline view toolbar.
Once the live model is disabled, your outline view and RPG editing
experience will be pretty well identical to what you got in 8.0.3.

If you disable the live model I recommend trying it out again in the next
version of RDp as it will continue to improve in robustness and features.

I have disabled the live outline refresh Edmund - but it hasn't affected other issues. In fact the only thing it did was stop the memory leak as best I can see and I had already partially dealt with that by enabling the little garbage can cleanup feature which seemed to help.

Content Assist might as well not be there right now. Outline even when manually refreshed "misses" stuff from /COPY members. Compiles are much slower and verify I have just had to give up on completely - for me that is a problem because with my travel schedule I am often coding when connecting is not practical or not fast enough to be useful. As I noted in a post the other day I am seeing Verify run for minutes even when there is only a single file in use and it has been cached. I have frequent "Not responding" situations - usually self-resolving if I am patient enough. There are days when I can wait 10 - 15 seconds just to get a context menu to appear. I would love to try a new workspace but I have so many projects/connections/filters that I am loathe to do that.


Jon Paris

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