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2007-02-02 Don Allingham <[email protected]>
* FAQ: update a bit. svn: r8025
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| 2007-02-02 Don Allingham <[email protected]> | ||
| * FAQ: update a bit. | ||
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| 2007-02-01 Piotr Czubaszek <[email protected]> | ||
| * src/plugins/rel_pl.py: Update. | ||
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| 15. What standards does GRAMPS support? | ||
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| 16. What is the maximum database size (bytes) GRAMPS can handle? | ||
| 16. What is the maximum database size GRAMPS can handle? | ||
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| 17. How many people can GRAMPS database handle? | ||
| 17. Why are non-latin characters displayed as garbage in PDF/PS reports? | ||
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| 18. Why is GRAMPS running so slowly? | ||
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| 19. My database is really big. | ||
| Is there a way around loading all the data into memory? | ||
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| 20. Why are non-latin characters displayed as garbage in PDF/PS reports? | ||
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| 21. Why can I not add/remove/edit columns to the lists in People View | ||
| 18. Why can I not add/remove/edit columns to the lists in People View | ||
| and Family View? | ||
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| 22. I would like to contribute to GRAMPS by writing my favorite report. | ||
| 19. I would like to contribute to GRAMPS by writing my favorite report. | ||
| How do I do that? | ||
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| 23. I found a bug and I want it fixed right now! What do I do? | ||
| 20. I found a bug and I want it fixed right now! What do I do? | ||
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| 24. It is obvious that GRAMPS absolutely needs to become a (client-server/ | ||
| 21. It is obvious that GRAMPS absolutely needs to become a (client-server/ | ||
| web-based/PHP/weblog/Javascript/C++/distributed/KDE/Motif/Tcl/Win32/C#/ | ||
| You-name-it) application. | ||
| When is this going to happen? | ||
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| Visual Genealogie. | ||
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| 16. What is the maximum database size (bytes) GRAMPS can handle? | ||
| 16. What is the maximum database size GRAMPS can handle? | ||
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| GRAMPS has no hard limits on the size of a database that it can handle. | ||
| In reality, however, there are practical limits. Currently GRAMPS loads all | ||
| data into memory, so the limiting factor tends to be the available memory | ||
| on the system. | ||
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| 17. How many people can GRAMPS database handle? | ||
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| We have found that on a typical system, GRAMPS tends to bog down after the | ||
| database has around 15,000 people. Again, this is dependant on how much | ||
| memory you have. | ||
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| 18. Why is GRAMPS running so slowly? | ||
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| If GRAMPS seems too slow to you, it is most likely that you have a large | ||
| database. Currently, GRAMPS loads all the database into memory, therefore | ||
| large databases tend to be less than responsive. Specifically, the system | ||
| can be virtually brought to its knees if swapping is needed for GRAMPS' data. | ||
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| This will be addressed in the next stable release following version 1.0. | ||
| Temporarily, adding more memory could make a huge difference, but we realize | ||
| that this is a poor way of treating the problem. If you would like to help | ||
| with the implementation of the real database backend, please don't hesitate | ||
| to email us at [email protected] | ||
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| 19. My database is really big. | ||
| Is there a way around loading all the data into memory? | ||
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| Currently, there is no way around it. However, this is our biggest priority | ||
| after releasing version 1.0. The real database backend will be incorporated | ||
| in the next stable release (1.2) which will dramatically improve performance | ||
| in both speed and memory usage. | ||
| In reality, however, there are practical limits based of memory and | ||
| disk size. With 2.2.6, GRAMPS can easily handle databases of over 100K | ||
| people. | ||
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| 20. Why are non-latin characters displayed as garbage in PDF/PS reports? | ||
| 17. Why are non-latin characters displayed as garbage in PDF/PS reports? | ||
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| This is a known problem -- PS (and PDF) have builtin fonts which pretty much | ||
| reflect the latin-1 charset. Any font in principle could be used with PS/PDF | ||
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| to PDF from the OpenOffice.org application. | ||
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| 21. Why can I not add/remove/edit columns to the lists in People View | ||
| 18. Why can I not add/remove/edit columns to the lists in People View | ||
| and Family View? | ||
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| This will be addressed after the TreeModelSort bug is fixed in pygtk, | ||
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| ability to add/remove/edit sortable columns. | ||
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| 22. I would like to contribute to GRAMPS by writing my favorite report. | ||
| 19. I would like to contribute to GRAMPS by writing my favorite report. | ||
| How do I do that? | ||
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| The easiest way to contribute to reports, filters, tools, etc. is to copy | ||
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| at [email protected] | ||
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| 23. I found a bug and I want it fixed right now! What do I do? | ||
| 20. I found a bug and I want it fixed right now! What do I do? | ||
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| The best thing you can do is to fix the bug and send the patch to | ||
| [email protected] :-) | ||
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| The next best thing would be to submit a good bug report. This can be done in | ||
| one of the two ways: (1) send your report to [email protected] | ||
| or (2) file your report with the bug tracker system at | ||
| http://sf.net/tracker/?group_id=25770&atid=385137 (this function is also | ||
| http://bugs.gramps-project.org (this function is also | ||
| available by selecting "Help->Report a bug" from gramps main menu). | ||
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| A good bug report would include: | ||
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| in your terminal or a in separate traceback window | ||
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| Most problems can be fixed quickly provided there is enough information. | ||
| To ensure this, please follow up on your bug reports. In particular, if you | ||
| file a bug report with sf.net bug tracker, PLEASE log into sf.net before | ||
| filing (register your free account if you don't have one). Then we will have | ||
| a way of contacting you should we need more information. If you still choose | ||
| to file your report anonymously, at least check every so often whether your | ||
| report page has something new posted, as it probably would. | ||
| To ensure this, please follow up on your bug reports. | ||
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| If the above explanations seem vague, please follow this link: | ||
| http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html | ||
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| 24. It is obvious that GRAMPS absolutely needs to become a (client-server/ | ||
| 21. It is obvious that GRAMPS absolutely needs to become a (client-server/ | ||
| web-based/PHP/weblog/Javascript/C++/distributed/KDE/Motif/Tcl/Win32/ | ||
| C#/You-name-it) application. | ||
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