There is a known issue that was (unintentionally) introduced in EG 8.1 that causes the memory usage to grow linearly based on the number of items displayed in the Servers tree. (The tree control we are using is, unfortunately, not fully virtualizing.) For libraries with lots of data sets, or folders with lots of files, this can quickly lead to an out-of-memory condition. To try to avoid this issue, we limit the number of child items we will show in the tree to 500 by default. However, there are still "More" and "All" links that will allow you to load more than 500, which has the side-effect of making it easy for a user to still encounter this out-of-memory condition. Since clicking the "More" and "All" links can potentially load lots more items into the tree, thus lead to the out-of-memory condition, we recommend using the File Open dialog to navigate for additional items (beyond 500) rather than using the "More" and "All" links.
To make it less likely for users to encounter this issue, we replaced (in upcoming 8.3 release) the "More" and "All" links with "Browse". For example, if you scroll through a library in the Servers pane that has more than 500 tables, you'll now see something like this...
Then, you can click the Browse button to bring up the file open dialog to navigate to the rest. (In fact, it probably makes more sense to navigate in a file open dialog when there are lots of items, rather than in a tree control, but the reason we put it there is to help alleviate this issue.) (Before 8.3, we showed "More" and "All" links here, which would still allow users to attempt to load more/all items, thus greater potential for encountering the out-of-memory condition.)
While this change makes it less likely for EG to consume an exorbitant amount of memory, memory consumption will still grow the more items you show in the tree by expanding large libraries/folders. If it is an issue, again, we recommend (as a workaround) using the File Open dialog to navigate large libraries/folders instead of the Servers pane.
Casey
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