Bug#423001: karm takes much too long to add/delete items
Hi Sune,
On Wednesday 09 May 2007 11:35:27 Sune Vuorela wrote:
> On Wednesday 09 May 2007, Lee Braiden wrote:
> > Package: karm
> > Version: 4:3.5.6.dfsg.1-2
> > Severity: normal
> >
> > Karm takes 3-4 seconds to add a to-do item, and 5 seconds to delete a
> > to-do item here. I have a fairly modern system (2.53 Ghz, 512MB RAM),
> > with a load average of 0.11. The delay seems to lock up the app for a
> > moment, preventing the window from refreshing. This also happens on
> > quitting karm, but that may be more normal. Pulling up properties for a
> > task or editing the description of a task and closing the dialog again
> > does not show this problem. Updating the time for a task and then
> > right-clicking the task results in a similar delay before rendering the
> > menu.
> >
> > I imagine that other karm users would have complained by now if this was
> > common, as it's very frustrating and time-consuming when managing large
> > lists of tasks. The only possible reasons I can think of for this
> > affecting me and not others are:
>
> Hi!
>
> I just fired up karm where I_have around 8 tasks. (not very much used, but
> I have them) - and I here it react immediately. My system isn't much
> different from yours (well I_have 1gb of ram, but that's the difference)
>
> A easy way to see if it is your settings or your computer is to try with a
> brand new user and see if it still happens.
>
> /Sune
I've just had to delete my karm.ics file, after discovering that it was 2.8MB
in size, filled with VEVENT entries. My guess is that this is related to
the "log history" option, which I've now disabled. I'm fairly certain this
is what was causing my performance problems. 2.8MB flat text ICS files as
event databases would surely cause a similar delay to what I was
experiencing.
I do think this is a valid bug, of the "doesn't scale" variety. IMHO, history
should be logged to another file, and/or in another format.
--
Lee Braiden
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