[gpodder-devel] Gpodder is slow / comments on bug #59
- From: me at nikosapi.org (Nick Nobody)
- Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:45:30 -0400
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 2:23 PM, Alistair Sutton
<alistair.sutton at gmail.com> wrote:
> All,
>
> I've been experiencing a "gpodder is slow" problem for a month or two now
> and have lived with it (at one point my feed list contained over 100
> podcasts so I thought that possibly had something to do with it). However,
> recently, despite trimming down my list slightly gpodder's gui can still be
> extremely unresponsive and slow.
>
> After starting gpodder with a blank feed list I discovered that the problem
> only seems to appear once the feed list gets to around 30/35 podcasts.
> Before that, there is a slight delay in gui updates but only by a matter of
> a second or two. After this number the delay increases.
>
> I did initially think it was only when downloading podcasts and it was the
> act of updating the downloading list/status that was causing the problem,
> however, I've just opened the preferences dialog, made no changes and
> clicked close. Five minutes or so later I'm still waiting for the gui to
> become available again.
>
> I'm running an up-to-date checkout from svn from a terminal and pressing
> CTRL-C when the gui is "frozen" will generate a traceback and the gui will
> become available again (nearly always including whatever changes had been
> requested, i.e. podcasts that had been selected to be deleted are marked as
> deleted, etc).
>
> While it is entirely possible that there is something weird on my system
> (FreeBSD 7-STABLE, up to date dependencies from the FreeBSD ports system), I
> find it odd that the problem only seems to begin when the feed list contains
> more than 30 feeds.
>
> I've attached the contents of the traceback from the terminal that happens
> when I press CTRL-C in case it helps. Nothing else on that is logged seems
> unsual.
>
> Alistair
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Are you using the latest gPodder? Thomas recently added some
improvements that dramatically increased gPodder's load time.
Try checking out the latest SVN[1] version and let us know if you see
any improvements.
nick
[1] http://gpodderwiki.jottit.com/running-from-svn
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