Definitely upgrade -- alot of improvements have been made recently. Also, the tag filter starts having performance problems when you start getting into tens of thousands of tiddlers (like a dictionary). It's a known bug and we're working on a solution.
You can turn on performance instrumentation in the control panel and open developer tools to see the results. I think it tells you to run a certain command to see the results. On Wed, Oct 30, 2019 at 9:54 AM 'Mark S.' via TiddlyWiki < tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com> wrote: > Reading your post, it sounds like you're still on 5.1.13. There were > improvements in 5.1.20. I would suggest making a copy > of your file and upgrading it to 5.1.21. > > It's really hard to diagnose at a distance. But you shouldn't be having > serious problems with only 800 tiddlers and 8megs on *all* platforms. > > Good luck! > > On Wednesday, October 30, 2019 at 5:43:20 AM UTC-7, S wrote: >> >> TW has gradually become slower and more unusable the more I add to it. It >> is text only, no added plugins or other extras, entirely structured and >> organized through tags, with three tiddlers of tags given their own Table >> of Contents type arrangement in the main row of TW tabs. >> >> Tags are used in tree format to organize tiddlers by time (year tiddlers >> and month-years within them), but I also use tags in the more traditional >> sense for tagging tiddlers by topics. Aside from the tiddlers used to form >> this structure, meaning all of my tiddlers that have actual content in them >> and not just a line of code, those tend to have on average 2-10 tags each. >> Some tags for subject matter rarely get used, while a few have been used >> 100+ times. >> >> Many tiddlers have a lot of text but hopefully that's not the problem. >> >> I do not keep the expanding lists of tags in tree structure all expanded >> at the same time, only what I need to reference. >> >> I was running an older version of TW5 when this issue began, and then >> updated to 5.1.13 which was the new version at the time. This made no >> difference. >> >> Whole TW file is 8 MB with 800 tiddlers (that I've made), and 140 tags. >> >> Opening, saving, and editing tiddlers and the TW are all slow. The worst >> is typing text in a tiddler as oftentimes the characters appear very >> delayed after I type them. All of the lag is a problem, but this is most >> problematic of all. These performance issues persist through various high >> spec computers, different OSes, multiple web browsers, TiddlyDesktop, >> running off disk vs portable media, as the only thing running vs running >> other programs or browser tabs, etc. >> >> TW is just miserable to use right now which is a shame considering how >> much I love it when it works and how much time I put into it. >> >> I did read through an earlier thread which maybe identifies my problem, >> possibly tags being used too many times. >> >> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/tiddlywiki/number$20of$20tiddlers%7Csort:date/tiddlywiki/U1ZKK8UIk94/q2DSlN_TAwAJ >> >> This plugin was mentioned towards the end of that thread that I think >> utilizes fields instead of tags. >> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/tiddlywiki/U1ZKK8UIk94/o3SH1PrQAwAJ >> >> Do you suspect my issue is tags rather than some other issue? If so, is >> there an easy way to convert some or all of my tags to fields or some other >> better-performing format while also maintaining the structure of tiddlers >> created by tags? I haven't done coding in a long time and so most of the >> coding in TW especially goes over my head. Tags make sense to me and I know >> how to use them, whereas I have no idea how I'd turn fields into the same >> structure I have if that's even possible and it looks like maybe there are >> a lot of rules with fields? I don't know if there's a solution, or if there >> is, if it's something I understand enough to do. >> >> Short of switching to a different platform, the only non-complex but >> tedious and inefficient solution that might work is to make all of those >> table of contents/expandable/lists of tiddlers in tiddlers (ruled by tags) >> into ordinary static tiddlers without code, that I update by hand with >> links to other tiddlers. So no longer would the tags let these lists >> automatically generate, but I would by hand add links to tiddlers in all of >> these places. For obvious reasons, I would rather not do this. >> >> Thanks! >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TiddlyWiki" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/8c809e95-3a2e-4d5f-b87e-2972faf0a56a%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/8c809e95-3a2e-4d5f-b87e-2972faf0a56a%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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