Going to cards very slow

Sarah Reichelt sarahr at genesearch.com.au
Tue Oct 5 20:59:01 EDT 2004


>> Here's a weird problem a friend encountered which has me stumped. 
>> Hopefully someone here will have the answer.
>> He has a 400 card stack and going to a card takes about 7 seconds, 
>> whether this is from another stack or just moving to the next card 
>> within the stack. I assumed he had lots of message handlers getting 
>> in the way, so I locked messages before going to the card. This 
>> worked fine and the navigation happened instantly as expected.
>> Now I wanted to find out what was causing the slowdown, so I removed 
>> the "lock messages" line and turned on the Message Watcher. At first, 
>> I had it suppressing unhandled messages and the only thing it showed 
>> was the mouseUp that triggered the "go to card ...". When I turned 
>> off suppress unhandled messages, the culprit was a seemingly endless 
>> stream of cRevGeneral messages. (I hit command-period after about a 
>> minute.)
>
> What are those messages?
I couldn't see. In the message watcher, they just showed up as 
cRevGeneral.
>
> Are you using the Geometry or Profile Managers?  Perhaps they're being 
> invoked unnecessarily; knowing what messages are being sent may help 
> diagnose what's happening.
No, I'm sure he doesn't use either of those.

Sarah



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