[chandler-users] Performance: Chandler desktop 1.0.3 RC1 on Mac OS X 10.5.6, Intel and PowerPC, profile on USB flash drive

[Graham Perrin]

Andi Vajda wrote:
> 
> … the UI/data interaction model that was chosen. Any action in the UI can
> (and does) have lots (really, _lots_) of ramifications all the way down to
> the lowest level of the core.
> 
> This is one of the things the ongoing rearchitecture effort is attempting
> to address. Blaming Python for Chandler's performance woes is barking up
> the wrong tree.
> 

More than anything, I'm curious. Not complaining about anything in
particular. Just seeing how Chandler 1.x architecture behaves in a 'tight'
situation such as this, sharing work-arounds. 

The flash drive + symlink approach is working well for me. 

The PowerPC versus Intel debate is well-trodden, I shouldn't encourage it
here :) 


Rob Stearn wrote:
> 
> … if you're observing greatly increased speeds in PPC than in Intel, it
> isn't memory bandwidth thats causing it.
> 
> From a troubleshooting POV, I would suspect:
> 
> Disk defragmentation (yes it can happen on Macs too)
> 
> Remaining Disk space
> 
> An indication a fresh install is needed, multiple upgrades  
> 
> 10.3>10.4>10.5 especially bridging architectures leaves a lot of stuff you
> don't need.
> 
> Something very wrong in the quality of the Python distro thats provided
> 
> Another process taking up CPU.
> 
> All or some of the above.
> 
> From my experience PPC machines running Chandler are accompanied with the
> soft whistle of fans.
> 

In my cases, I guess, in order of significance: 

1. (most significant) layout of files on disk

2. great size of catalog of HFS+ volume, with RAM limited to 2 GB. 

Possible, I guess, that Intel and PowerPC architectures have different
approaches to use of 
/.hotfiles.btree 
and that 'end' of a disk.

Within the very limited and highly fragmented free space, fragmentation of
swap files seems to make surprisingly little difference.

I'll review this topic in a few weeks, or sooner, when I get a new laptop :)

Regards
Graham
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