[gpodder-devel] Gpodder is slow / comments on bug #59

  • From: me at nikosapi.org (Nick Nobody)
  • Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:29:54 -0400

On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 3:22 PM, Alistair Sutton
<alistair.sutton at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 2008/4/23 Nick Nobody <me at nikosapi.org>:
> > On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 2:57 PM, Alistair Sutton
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> > <alistair.sutton at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > 2008/4/23 Nick Nobody <me at nikosapi.org>:
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> > > > On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 2:49 PM, Alistair Sutton
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> > > > <alistair.sutton at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > > > 2008/4/23 Nick Nobody <me at nikosapi.org>:
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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.
> > > > >
> > > > > I'm running the latest svn (have been running svn for as long as I
> can
> > > > > remember to be honest).
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> > > > > Reading my mail back I feel I should clarify something. The initial
> > > loading
> > > > > isn't slow (except when it is waiting for servers to respond with
> > > feeds), it
> > > > > is once the feeds have been updated/loaded that everything seems to
> go
> > > slow.
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> > > > > Alistair
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> > > > If you don't mind, may we see your ~/.config/gpodder/channels.opml?
> > > > That way we can experiment with your list.
> > >
> > > Rather than clogging up everyone's email with it, I've put it online at
> the
> > > following location:
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> > > http://ajs.no-dns-yet.org.uk/channels.opml
> > >
> > > When I was experimenting with a fresh channel list I did wonder if the
> > > Novell Open Audio OGG feed may have been causing a problem (as the
> slowdown
> > > re-occurred once I added that feed), however, I tried avoiding that feed
> > > when starting again and the same problem reoccurred.
> > >
> > > Alistair
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> > Woah, that's a huge list! For me, it loads in less than a minute. But
> > it's still very slow...
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> I  find having lots of things to listen to helps drown out the fans of the
> server cabinet behind me :-)
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> If it loads for you in less than a minute (presumably that is including
> updates?) then there may still be a proble on my machine cause it certainly
> isn't that quick for me.
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> > If you've got some time you could try playing with python's built in
> > profiler[1] to see what's causing the slowdowns. Sorry, I don't have
> > too much time on my hands,
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> I'll have a look and see if I can dig anything up.
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> Thanks!
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> Alistair
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It takes just about a minute to load without downloading updates. I'm
on a fairly quick machine (2GHz core 2 duo) so that might help.

nick

P.S. I wish I was sitting in a nice air conditioned server room... It's hot! :P


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