Well, sad night for sequencing. Getting lot's of odd behavior, some of which I have seen before and reboot to fix, others well.
I have tried tonight 2018.2, 2018.3 and 2018.4. No matter what I do. ANY TIME I try to select ANY group in the "Layout" Tab, xlights just freezes up. I've waited as long as 5 minutes. Just a total freeze. CPU nor memory ticks up, everything just freezes solid. Tried multiple versions and a couple of reboots. No dice.
Second one, more problematic (because for now I can avoid editing groups...) when I select and change a couple of different effects, totally at random, but do it quickly, (like click an effect, delete it, then click an effect, delete it.. etc, xlights decides to just go into memory consumption mode.
I just tried to delete a number of effects, and let things run. For > 10 minutes, this is what the memory was doing (see attached screenprint.)
This is non-deterministic, no idea how or why randomly 2-3x per night while working on various effects, all of a sudden things freeze up, memory spikes out to all physical memory (and then starts paging to disk) at which time the machine is pretty much DOA. Frustratingly to the point of having to pull the power cord and reboot. Any idea why Xlights likes to go into some mode where it just chews up all available memory on the machine until drastic action is necessary?
Anything I can grab, show, or do to help troubleshoot either of these, please let me know.