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Posted (edited) · slow GUI when using settings search

The search bar is very slow on my linux system. I always found the search to be slow and i'm wondering if this is normal. I takes over 10 seconds to show all settings again after a search.

 

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I made an strace log for the situation seen in the .gif. 
It doesn't explain where all the time is going but it is rather strange that there are over 28'000 failed file stats.
There are also a lot of repeated file accesses to some .svg files. Seems like unhiding each line repeats the same file operations over and over again. I'm wondering why there needs to be file access at all for just unhiding the settings.

 

Cura version 4.13

 

> sudo strace -f -p $(pgrep -x "cura" | cut -f1 -d' ' | head -1) -c  
strace: Process 1175945 attached with 18 threads
^Cstrace: Process 1175945 detached
strace: Process 1175967 detached
strace: Process 1175968 detached
strace: Process 1175969 detached
strace: Process 1175973 detached
strace: Process 1175974 detached
strace: Process 1175975 detached
strace: Process 1175976 detached
strace: Process 1175997 detached
strace: Process 1176028 detached
strace: Process 1176029 detached
strace: Process 1176030 detached
strace: Process 1176031 detached
strace: Process 1176032 detached
strace: Process 1197003 detached
strace: Process 1200372 detached
strace: Process 1200373 detached
strace: Process 1200374 detached
% time     seconds  usecs/call     calls    errors syscall
------ ----------- ----------- --------- --------- ----------------
 40,74    1,673923      334784         5           select
 24,64    1,012515        2033       498           ppoll
 23,89    0,981555        1810       542           poll
  6,66    0,273611      136805         2         1 restart_syscall
  3,19    0,130973           4     29289     28121 stat
  0,39    0,015935           2      5587           access
  0,19    0,007663           1      6900           clock_gettime
  0,11    0,004584           1      3680           getpid
  0,06    0,002333           1      1850           sched_yield
  0,04    0,001537           2       556        44 ioctl
  0,01    0,000559           4       127        24 futex
  0,01    0,000557           3       146           read
  0,01    0,000541           6        86         3 openat
  0,01    0,000535           3       150           fstat
  0,01    0,000479           3       152           close
  0,01    0,000447           0       530           getcwd
  0,01    0,000282           6        46           mprotect
  0,01    0,000219           4        44           madvise
  0,00    0,000148           8        17           mmap
  0,00    0,000146           8        17           memfd_create
  0,00    0,000138           4        29           write
  0,00    0,000129           1        79           recvmsg
  0,00    0,000078           2        32           recvfrom
  0,00    0,000065           3        17           ftruncate
  0,00    0,000058           7         8           sendto
  0,00    0,000051           0        52           socket
  0,00    0,000044           2        18           lstat
  0,00    0,000038           2        15           lseek
  0,00    0,000024           2        12           getdents64
  0,00    0,000021           5         4           writev
  0,00    0,000004           1         4           setsockopt
------ ----------- ----------- --------- --------- ----------------
100.00    4,109192                 50494     28193 total

cura.strace.zip

cura.strace.zip

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    Posted · slow GUI when using settings search

    What version of Cura do you use? For me the populating of the settings has gotten a lot snappier with the Cura 5 beta.

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