Re: [Audacity-devel] Excessive slowness for some users

[Steve F. <ste...@gm...>]

On Thu, 13 May 2021 at 22:16, James Crook <jam...@gm...> wrote:

> The slow appearance of the problem possibly fits with checkpointing.
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> Planned changes, to use more standard max .wal size (i.e. block-size x
> checkpoint-block-count-threshold )  may both make the slowdown smaller and
> more even, if it is the cause.  It may also eliminate it, if it is related
> to exceeding some in-memory cache size and so thrashing.
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> I would say the fastest way is to get some test builds out that do this,
> and get feedback from such users.
> Things that may also help confirm/contradict this are asking about total
> RAM and about other programs running - especially browsers with many tabs
> open.  Perhaps closing browsers so freeing up RAM will alleviate??
>
> How many are 'worrying numbers'?
>

This latest one makes 5 separate reports that I've noticed in the last
couple of weeks.
There's also a couple of others that may or may not be the same issue.

Actual Audacity bugs make up a small proportion of forum issues, so
although it's not a big number, it's a significantly large proportion of
actual bugs.

Steve



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> On Thu, 13 May 2021 at 21:23, Cliff <fly...@gm...> wrote:
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>> I have not seen that on Mac Mojave. The only things that at times seem
>> slow is saving after a lot of editing. Initial project is usually 2+ hours
>> and the final project is an hour or 1:15 or so. Compressor is normally
>> quick, but I’m using the old one and not the new one. Basic operations are
>> all very normal speeds.
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>> Cliff
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>> On May 13, 2021, at 13:51, Steve Fiddle <ste...@gm...> wrote:
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>> We're getting a worrying number of reports of Audacity 3.x being
>> excessively slow for some users. The common factor being that the projects
>> are longer than about 30 minutes.
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>> Most of the reports have been on Windows, but so are most of our users,
>> so that may not be significant.
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>> On Linux, when working with project of an hour or more I have also
>> experienced some long waits, especially when closing the project (though  I
>> rarely work on projects that are more than a few minutes long).
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>> A peculiarity is that the slowness may not appear immediately. It seems
>> to happen after working on the project for a while, and may be related to
>> using "Undo".
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>> Below is the latest report that came in a few minutes ago.
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>> Steve
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>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
>> From: [redacted]
>> Date: Thu, 13 May 2021 at 19:26
>> Subject: Audacity 3.02
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>>
>> I appreciate the work you do and you making it available free to the
>> user. It has helped me for years.
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>> I do not want to complain but I am having some issues that I feel you
>> should be made aware of.
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>> I am using a Windows 10 Computer. All of my recordings are voice only and
>> range from 30 to 60 minutes. Over the years I have made many recording
>> using audacity. I average 2-3 recordings a week and have used audacity
>> since one of your earliest versions.
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>> A few weeks ago I upgraded to Audacity 3.0. With great expectation, I
>> loaded it, expecting my “wait” time to be reduced. The reverse happened on
>> nearly everything I do. It was so bad, I went back to my older version.
>> Today, I saw 3.02 was out and downloaded it. I recorded a 48 minute audio
>> without issue. However, When it came to editing, it was a different story.
>> Below are a few of the “wait times” I experienced.
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>> ·        Sound Finder took a long time but I did not time it.
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>> ·        Label Audio Split took over 20 minutes
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>> ·        Compressor took over 40 minutes.
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>> ·        Truncate Silence took a long time.
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>> ·        Saving the file also took an extremely long time.
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>> ·        Closing Audacity took over 21 minutes.
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>> I hope this information helps resolve some issues. If I can be of help in
>> evaluating, I would be happy to do so.
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>> Sincerely,
>>
>> [redacted]
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