to many GC_EXTERNAL_ALLOC log messages. about alogcat HOT 5 CLOSED

This makes alogcat almost unusable. Every time I scroll the window gets flooded 
with GC_EXTERNAL_ALLOC statements. 

Sometimes it'll get stuck and completely flooding the screen after I stop 
touching it. It has literally filled the entire scrollable area with those 
messages a few times.

Samsung Galaxy Tab
Android v2.3.5
aLogcat v2.3

Preface:  I am in no way associated with aLogCat development.  I just happened 
to stumble upon this issue.

This is not a defect in the logger and a filtering option is provided.  The 
following procedure will remove the garbage collection log entries from your 
aLogCat output:
1) While in aLogCat, press the Menu key on your device and tap Filter
2) Tap the check-box next to "Apply as regular expression?" to enable it
3) In the text box input the following exactly:  ^(?!.*(dalvikvm|GC)).*$
4) Tap Okay and your screen will be updated sans garbage collection spam.

Android is (very) new to me so I don't know if this is the perfect solution 
but...
Lets give it a try.

I think the background of the listview is the problem.
As explained in the following resource.
http://developer.android.com/resources/articles/listview-backgrounds.html

Removing this code from log.xml enables cacheColorHint optimization.
android:cacheColorHint="#00000000"
By enabling this optimization the garbage collection is drastically reduced.

The default cacheColorHint is black so we need set the cacheColorHint to the 
desired value. I did this by adding this line to the onStart() method of 
logActivity.java.
mLogList.setCacheColorHint(mPrefs.getBackgroundColor().getColor());

Greetz

thanks for looking into this folks. i will try out that suggestion and publish 
a new version if all is good.

fixed in 2.4.