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Reload logs option sometimes skips a few lines. #238713 20/08/12 04:17 PM
Joined: Jan 2012 Posts: 54 J Jaillynian OP Babel fish
OP Jaillynian Babel fish J Joined: Jan 2012 Posts: 54	I've noticed with the reload log option for channels and chat windows that sometimes the log file doesn't fully display. The last few lines are cut, but not always.

Re: Reload logs option sometimes skips a few lines. Jaillynian #238714 20/08/12 04:30 PM
Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 5,421 London, UK Khaled Hoopy frood
Khaled Hoopy frood Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 5,421 London, UK	Thanks for your post. The reload logs feature loads at most the last 500 lines of a log file (see changes for v6.32 in versions.txt file). Log files can be very large, so reloading them for every channel or query that you open could very easily result in Windows running out of memory, as well as slowing mIRC down. The 500 line limit was added to prevent these types of issues.

Re: Reload logs option sometimes skips a few lines. Khaled #238715 20/08/12 05:35 PM
Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 344 D drum Pan-dimensional mouse
drum Pan-dimensional mouse D Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 344	Originally Posted By: Khaled Thanks for your post. The reload logs feature loads at most the last 500 lines of a log file (see changes for v6.32 in versions.txt file). Log files can be very large, so reloading them for every channel or query that you open could very easily result in Windows running out of memory, as well as slowing mIRC down. The 500 line limit was added to prevent these types of issues. I think he meant the bottom few lines (i.e., most recent lines) are missing.

Re: Reload logs option sometimes skips a few lines. drum #238718 20/08/12 09:26 PM
Joined: Jan 2012 Posts: 54 J Jaillynian OP Babel fish
OP Jaillynian Babel fish J Joined: Jan 2012 Posts: 54	Originally Posted By: drum Originally Posted By: Khaled Thanks for your post. The reload logs feature loads at most the last 500 lines of a log file (see changes for v6.32 in versions.txt file). Log files can be very large, so reloading them for every channel or query that you open could very easily result in Windows running out of memory, as well as slowing mIRC down. The 500 line limit was added to prevent these types of issues. I think he meant the bottom few lines (i.e., most recent lines) are missing. Yes. That's what I meant.

Re: Reload logs option sometimes skips a few lines. Jaillynian #238722 20/08/12 11:19 PM
Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 344 D drum Pan-dimensional mouse
drum Pan-dimensional mouse D Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 344	Originally Posted By: Jaillynian Yes. That's what I meant. When it happens next time, can you check to see if the log file also has those lines missing?

Re: Reload logs option sometimes skips a few lines. drum #238726 21/08/12 08:42 AM
Joined: Jan 2012 Posts: 54 J Jaillynian OP Babel fish
OP Jaillynian Babel fish J Joined: Jan 2012 Posts: 54	the log doesn't lack the lines. I've left a channel and rejoined and the lines would pop up then. it's just not reloading it properly

Re: Reload logs option sometimes skips a few lines. Jaillynian #238734 22/08/12 09:01 AM
Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 5,421 London, UK Khaled Hoopy frood
Khaled Hoopy frood Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 5,421 London, UK	Thanks I will try to reproduce the issue here.

Re: Reload logs option sometimes skips a few lines. Khaled #238861 02/09/12 10:19 AM
Joined: May 2010 Posts: 45 B BenderUnit Ameglian cow
BenderUnit Ameglian cow B Joined: May 2010 Posts: 45	I too am experiencing this problem for quite some time now. Almost 2 years ago I posted about this here.

Re: Reload logs option sometimes skips a few lines. Jaillynian #239167 28/09/12 08:54 AM
Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 5,421 London, UK Khaled Hoopy frood
Khaled Hoopy frood Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 5,421 London, UK	Thanks, I think I have found the cause of this issue. It has been fixed for the next version.

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