Re: Indexing...
Re: Indexing...
- Subject: Re: Indexing...
- From: Godfrey DiGiorgi <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2003 11:14:07 -0800
James,
I really don't think my email server can stand the onslaught of
hundreds of System Profiler reports ... ;-)
What I have seen, and looking at Jim's System Profile lends another
data point, is that if you have insufficient free space on your system
volume you will be more frequently rewarded with the spinning pizza
cursor pauses as the page memory system works to retrieve stuff
shuffled out to disk. This behavior isn't specific to Xcode, I notice
it happening on my laptop (which is frequently pickled with less than
1G free space due to a marginally small and slightly slow drive) with
other apps like Mail, Photoshop, Safari, etc. To keep performance high,
I try to keep free disk space of at least 4-5Gbytes on my desktop
systems, and there I almost never see the spinning pizza even with a
modest 512M RAM configuration.
top can be used to help determine the validity of this hypothesis. If
you experience abnormally slow operations, frequent display of the spin
cursor, etc, check your free disk space, use top and the Spin Control
performance tools to see what might be happening, and file bug reports
if the issue seems to be repeatable and Xcode specific.
best,
Godfrey
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Technology Manager, Development Tools
Apple Worldwide Developer Relations
On Nov 5, 2003, at 6:00 PM, James Spencer wrote:
If this is surprising you that this is happening, you should know that
there are others of us here (or to be more accurate, at least one
other, me) who is very frustrated with the same behavior. Do you want
other folks profiles too?
Spence
James P. Spencer
Rochester, MN
email@hidden
"Badges?? We don't need no stinkin badges!"
On Nov 5, 2003, at 12:45 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
Jim,
Can you describe your system configuration? What cpu, what memory,
how much free space on your drive, how many other processes open and
active, etc? Feel free to send me (not the list) a System Profiler
report too. A screen shot of a Terminal window running "top -ocpu
-Otime" could also be useful.
thanks,
Godfrey
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Godfrey DiGiorgi - email@hidden
408 974-6814 tel - 408 974-8101 fax - 408 832-8319 cell
Technology Manager, Development Tools
Apple Worldwide Developer Relations
On Nov 4, 2003, at 6:22 PM, Jim Rankin wrote:
...is making my life miserable. XCode is always finding something
it just absolutely index at this very second, creating a text
editing experience like
hit left arrow key
(spinning rainbow of death)
type p
(spinning rainbow of death)
try to click at a different location
(spinning rainbow of death)
...two or three seconds between each key stroke. I know indexing is
what makes a lot of the special features in XCode possible, but if
it's done in a way that prevents you from editing your code it's not
very useful, is it?
Rant over.
So am I doing something wrong? Is anyone else seeing this? Is it
being fixed?
Thanks,
-jimbo
Excelsior! XML Marshaller for Cocoa
http://www.homepage.mac.com/jimbokun/Excelsior.html
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