Have you tried trashing the LC preferences? Have you tried the recent stack with a different data stack, or perhaps one with less data?
Craig > On Jun 26, 2024, at 4:35 AM, Neville Smythe via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > I am plagued by a new problem which has arisen in an old stack that I have > been using for years with hundreds of modifications over that time. It was > still working well until suddenly in the last few week most of its data > processing handlers have slowed to a crawl. A button that gathers text data > from a number cards, does some text manipulations and then displays a modal > dialog, that used to be instantaneous now takes 30 seconds to display the > dialog. Another button which does extensive text gathering and processing now > takes 30 minutes instead of 30 seconds. > > So I have done something to the data stack in the last few months. It is not > a change of LC version or platform OS. A standalone I produced a couple of > months ago does not display this slow behaviour when working on its old > version of the data stack, but does show it when I apply it to the latest > version of the data stack. > > But I am at loss to figure out what setting I might have changed or what else > I could have done. I did not change the scripts of the offending buttons > since the previous version, so it sounds like a setting change. The stack > behaves as if the processing buttons have difficulty finding all the > necessary handlers, or as if it is it reporting in to Shanghai or Virginia > between handler calls. I don’t believe the stack is actually corrupted, > actions such as scrolling fields or moving between cards all work as normal. > The only other piece of information is that the CPU ramps up to 100% use in > one core , so it is doing something - but what? (Memory usage goes up to > 500MB but does not keep climbing, unlikely to be a memory leak or virtual > memory swapping (hmmm?)) > > I have tried to compare the differences between the old and new version of > the stacks as files using BBEdit, but most differences seem to be in binary > data at the end of the files, whose meaning is opaque. > > Any ideas as to what might be causing this, or how I might go about > diagnosis, would be hugely welcome. > > > Neville Smytis > > > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
