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wpitman · AuctionSieve expert Joined: 27 Mar 2005 Posts: 55

Nev -- did you get my email with my data file that you requested?

nev · Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2011 11:41 pm Post subject:

Yes thanks - got your file.

I've had a chance to look and done some changes to fix the unknowns - they still show as unknown times but the prices come through ok - they're all BINs on a new page format.

I'll be releasing a beta soon.

wickmesh · Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2011 8:01 am Post subject:

Hi Nev,

They're not all BINs for me.

Example items that have come up with Unknown time and missing price:
260839650762 (auction with BIN)
220838197455 (auction)
290601306674 (auction)

All searched for via ebay.co.uk.

Kind Regards
Andrew

wickmesh · Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2011 8:53 am Post subject:

I'm guessing this is caused by the same problem (change of page format):

Items are
250878812000
280727163073
350329880081
270787441875
160069760296
190520120030

All are BIN, none have actually ended.

Ebay are changing things AGAIN Mad

Kind Regards
Andrew

jjforb · Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2011 7:49 pm Post subject:

I have upgraded to Lion. AuctionSieve works fine. Lion has changed the appearance of the scroll bar and buttons which I like.

nev · Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2011 2:46 am Post subject:

Thanks for the info - I'll have a look.

And thanks for the confirmation Joe!

nev · Posted: Sun Sep 25, 2011 2:07 pm Post subject:

New 2.5.6.2 beta is out with some more fixes.

wickmesh · Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2011 11:51 am Post subject:

Cheers Nev, 2.5.6.2 seems to bring things back to normal.

Thank You!

wickmesh · Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2011 7:26 am Post subject:

Update - although it works I'm not convinced it's properly letting go of the memory (RAM) it's used in searching the sieves?

When I start up AS (roughly 200 items in my watchlist) the memory usage is under 100MB, after running my sieves it's over 600MB and it doesn't seem to drop as each sieve is closed...

The memory is returned OK when AS is closed though.

Cheers
Andrew

nev · Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2011 11:39 pm Post subject:

That's due to the way Java works.
Once it requests more memory from the OS, it never gives it back.
(Which is kind of downer).
(Also, this isn't absolutely true for all cases - it depends on the VM... and you can muck around with command line switches... but it's generally true.)

Nev

wickmesh · Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2011 9:08 am Post subject:

Not a problem, obviously I'd never noticed it before.

It would explain why my old 512MB RAM laptop struggles with AS though! Maybe if I open a sieve at a time and then close AS after each...

Cheers
Andrew