Same behaviour with the surface and the drive directly connected.
Getting a video to accompany logs - what’s the best way to share the link once
I’ve got it all sorted out?
On 18/12/2019, at 10:29, bareheiny (Redacted sender bareheiny for DMARC)
<dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
No, it’s not a time-out (although I did see one post cancelled)....it
literally takes a good six plus minutes to display the first 100 comics.
CX is set to display 100 comics at minimum size – pn first navigation to the
library page, the first six (or so) covers display within seconds.
Then covers in placeholders 50-60 may display, then the first six disappear
(cover images no longer show, and placeholder size is minimal). Then the
remaining covers are slowly populated...and finally the first six appear
again.
The CX log shows the covers are being requested...but it looks like it’s in
bursts of maybe 10 or so, but the Chrome log shows all 100 content requests
are fired at the same time.
I doubt I’m explaining it properly >_< I may need to grab a video...but can
only do that on my surface, which isn’t recognising external drives at the
moment.
It looks like my har log is corrupt, so I’ll need to try again tonight.
Hardware wise, my library is on a 4TB USB3.0 drive, connected to a destktop
pc running Windows 10 pro. I think it’s an i3 or i4, with 4GB memory yadda
yadda yadda. It’s only used as a media server, so it’s not doing much at any
given time.
Once I get the surface sorted out, I’m going to connect the 4TB drive to it
and see if CX behaves any differently.
From: Darryl L. Pierce
Sent: Wednesday, 18 December 2019 2:41 AM
To: comixed-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [comixed-dev] Re: Cover caching.
A six minute delay would timeout the request and the frontend would abandon
trying to display the image. Is that what you're seeing?
But, still, even with H2 (rather than an external RDBMS like MySQL) and over
10k comics, I've never seen a delay even close to that. I think the longest
I've seen is about 15-20 seconds between a set of covers being loaded and
then another set rendering all at once. But never on the order of minutes.
What is the hardware that you're using, specifically? Do you find the browser
behaving sluggishly in other ways? I have a laptop (Dell Inspiron 15 5000)
that, when I've been using it for a while, starts drastically slowing down
due to the poor thermal venting from the chassis. It'll be fast, fast fast,
then get hot and go slow (or stop entirely) until it cools down, then goes
fast again. Could there be something similar affecting your Surface?
Does anybody else see that level of delay?
On Tue, Dec 17, 2019 at 4:45 AM bareheiny <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
As an fyi, I’ve captured some logs - just need to look at them (hopefully
tomorrow).
I’m definitely seeing delays of up to 6 mins between a cached cover being
requested and it being returned to chrome.
On my surface, with a local copy of 400 random comics CX behaves as I’d
expect to - minor delays, but nothing more than a few seconds. I’m guessing
the size of the library plays a part in the load time issues.
On 17/12/2019, at 12:57, bareheiny (Redacted sender bareheiny for DMARC)
<dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Back to cover caching – is it likely to by affected by the way the drive is
accessed?
All of my comics are stored on an external drive connected to a desktop
machine. More often than not, I access the drive via network share from my
Surface – I make sure the drive letter is the same, so both the desktop and
network share are accessed via Z.
I’ve noticed that CX running on my Surface (with a local copy of the
database) doesn’t seem to show, or cache, covers.
From: bareheiny
Sent: Tuesday, 17 December 2019 9:39 AM
To: comixed-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [comixed-dev] Re: Cover caching.
Logging parameter I’m using: --logging.level.org.comixed=DEBUG >
Z:\Comics\.comiXed\comiXed.log
From: bareheiny
Sent: Tuesday, 17 December 2019 9:37 AM
To: comixed-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [comixed-dev] Re: Cover caching.
I picked up the new pre-release, and as usual have questions.
When logging is enabled, where does it get output to, and would it override
the piping to a file parameter used in the bat file I use to start CX?
Also, what sort of additional logging should I expect to see?
On 16/12/2019, at 16:50, Darryl L. Pierce <mcpierce@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I'm hoping that, with the logging code I put in today, you'll be able to
capture some imperical data from the browser and post it for us to look over
an figure out what's going on.
On Sun, Dec 15, 2019 at 4:08 PM bareheiny <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Sorting may not be an issue – lack of sleep over the weekend is causing a few
cognitive issues.
Ignoring the donut chart page, I’m still seeing weird behaviour when
navigating library pages.
Starting on page one, the comic count (bottom left of the screen) starts at
100 and slowly increases...at the same time, covers are loaded
(slowly...which is odd, as they have been cached before).
When navigating to another page of the library (usually page 2), nothing
happens for a period of time...after which the cover panes are cleared (i.e.
the images from page 1 are removed, and the placeholder panes are shown).
The comic count resets to 100 and the covers are slowly loaded.
The upshot of this is that navigating the library is painfully slow ☹
From: Darryl L. Pierce
Sent: Monday, 16 December 2019 2:20 AM
To: comixed-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [comixed-dev] Re: Cover caching.
For the sorting, I'm guessing there's likely still a bug in that code. :-/
On Sun, Dec 15, 2019 at 4:01 AM bareheiny <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Not sure I’m seeing any increase in load times...but I am seeing odd
behaviour in the library counts.
For example, the count gets up to 48k when fully loaded (on the doughnut
chart page), navigating to the library page changes it to 100....which slowly
increases.
Navigating to page 2 puts the count back to 100....and takes a long time to
load.
I’ll keep digging when I get some time, but can I confirm this is not what is
expected?
I had anticipated the covers to be cached slowly (seems to be happening), but
the decreased load times have t materialised.
I’m also seeing odd behaviour in the library load...I default to sort by date
loaded, but the comics are being loaded in series groups - with log messages
to that effect.
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"Le centre du monde est partout." - Blaise Pascal
"Let's try and find some point of transcendence and leap together." - Gord
Downie
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Darryl L. Pierce <mcpierce@xxxxxxxxx>
"Le centre du monde est partout." - Blaise Pascal
"Let's try and find some point of transcendence and leap together." - Gord
Downie
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Darryl L. Pierce <mcpierce@xxxxxxxxx>
"Le centre du monde est partout." - Blaise Pascal
"Let's try and find some point of transcendence and leap together." - Gord
Downie
