From: Kees B. <kee...@xs...> - 2007-01-15 21:12:45
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Op maandag 15 januari 2007 21:13, schreef Richard Taylor: > On Monday 15 January 2007 19:44, Kees Bakker wrote: > > > > Here are some figures about my father's database (on an AMD 3200+ with 1Gb > > mem). > > > > - reading in a 5Mb GEDCOM with 24353 people in 9750 families takes about > > 3,5 minutes > > - the resulting database is about 100Mb > > - opening that 100Mb database takes roughly 30-40 seconds > > - in people view the clicking on the little triangles is very confusing > > because of the slow feedback (When I showed this to my 84 year old father > > he clicked a few times on a triangle and nothing happened. It took 5 > > seconds before the list unfolded. That is, a surname list with a lot of > > people, which is not unusual if you have a genealogy for your own family. > > Now if you click twice it takes 10 seconds without any visible result.) > > - scrolling in people view using PgUp and PgDn will confuse the display of > > the cursor line (the blue line with the selected person) > > > > The last two items make Gramps simply not-usable for my father. > > > > Would you say that it is the speed (or lack of) that is the primary problem or > the lack of feedback? The lack of feedback I would say. > It may be possible to add some user feedback for operations that are taking a > long time. I am not sure that it will ever be possible to make a database > with 100,000+ records work very quickly in gramps. The View model will always > be slow with that many records. > > Richard > > > |