Lloyd said:
So, this might be an obscure tip for anyone that runs into this problem...
Thanks. I'm filing this one.
Have you noticed an overall slowing of the UI response (on any
system) as the number of modules gets over 1000 (or very large)? I'm
not sure if it's the simple number of modules (including receivers,
transmitters, etc. in the count), or because I've cultivated a
genetic strain here from a large net of the past, which I opened,
pruned off great gobs of stuff not needed, but kept gobs of stuff I
did need and didn't want to recreate from scratch.
I'm wondering if the fact that new Receivers are numbered in the
1000's (1023 in fact, but there aren't 1023 due to deletions during
the historical development; only 738), if the slow response (5-6 sec
from click to appearance of a new module in the editor, 10-12 sec to
turn a page), is something to do with the namespace searching/hashing
that is presumably going on under the covers.
Any thoughts, anyone? The specific system is 4.1.1 on SGI Irix but
the net was brisk when smaller (and other moderately large nets, say
in the 200-300 module size) are still as brisk as ever.
BTW, a quick and dirty module counter:
grep node your.net | wc -l
or make a nice list
grep node your.net | sort > your.net.list (except the numbers aren't
zero padded so the sort is sucky)
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