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Poor zim 0.52 performance - hangs on regular basis

Asked by Tomasz (Tomek) Muras

I suspect that this is related to auto-save functionality of zim. After typing for a while, the whole application freezes for several seconds. I've disabled all plugins except for spell checker, calendar and print to browser. I have a bit over 700 pages in zim.

My question is: could you point me where (in the code) I can find the interval for auto-saving? I really don't mind it being much more than it is now - say to auto-save every 10 minutes if that fixes the performance issue for me. I also don't mind changing the code if it's hardcoded somewhere.

Thanks.

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Jaap Karssenberg (jaap.karssenberg) said : 		#1

You can actually find a setting for that in the preferences config file -
see the manual for details.

Could you add some info what kind of system you are using ? Notebook size
doesn't matter, autosave just saves the current page as text file, maybe you
have a real slow file system / share drive ?

-- Jaap

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Tomasz (Tomek) Muras (zabuch) said : 		#2

Do you mean this option form notebook.zim:
slow_fs=False ?

I don't think it's documented anywhere on http://zim-wiki.org/manual/Start.html or at least I have problems finding it.

My problem may be related to spell checker as well. Does spell checker run at the same time when page is saved?

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Best Jaap Karssenberg (jaap.karssenberg) said : 		#3

On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 4:06 PM, Zabuch <
<email address hidden>> wrote:

> Zabuch is still having a problem:
> Do you mean this option form notebook.zim:
> slow_fs=False ?
>

No I mean the "autosave_timeout" option in preferences,conf, see
http://www.zim-wiki.org/manual/Help/Config_Files.html .

I don't think it's documented anywhere on http://zim-
> wiki.org/manual/Start.html or at least I have problems finding it.
>
> My problem may be related to spell checker as well. Does spell checker
> run at the same time when page is saved?
>

No. I don't think spell checker has anything to do with an issue like this.

Regards,

Jaap

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Tomasz (Tomek) Muras (zabuch) said : 		#4

Thanks Jaap Karssenberg, that solved my question.