[gpodder-devel] Performance issues

  • From: justin.forest at gmail.com (hex)
  • Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 05:37:29 +0300

Resending, the first one was rejected because I forgot to zip the log.

On 1/10/08, hex <justin.forest at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello again.
>
> I couldn't find a bug tracker, so perhaps this is the right place.
>
> I'm using version 0.10.3 in Ubuntu Gutsy and the performance is
> ridiculously bad.  I have 6 feeds, 3 of them have less than 20 episodes, 3
> others have more than a hundred each.
>
> When gPodder starts, it updates all channels, that's ok even if that's
> slow and takes all CPU.  When I double-click a channel, then just hit
> "Cancel" (or the [X] button), it updates them all again.  Even when I select
> one episode and click "Download...", it still updates all feeds.  This is
> very inconvenient and slow.
>
> I ran `time gpodder -v 2>&1 >gpodder.log`, which I attach to this message.
>  The messages are not too descriptive and there are no timestamps, but
> basically, there's 881 message starting with "Loading downloaded episodes".
>  There is zero network activity during these loadings, but the CPU is at
> 100%.
>
> The output (of `time`) was, excluding an exception-during-shutdown
> warning:
>
> real    0m38.423s
> user    0m32.278s
> sys     0m0.952s
>
> This is, again, (1) launching gpodder, (2) selecting a new episode when
> the list becomes available, (3) clicking the "download" button on the
> toolbar, and (4) clicking the "exit" button as soon as it becomes
> available.  38 seconds on a Pentium 4 (Celeron) 1.7GHz with nothing else
> running in the background.
>
> --
> hex, out.
>



-- 
hex, out.
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