Author Control Panel Is a System Hog

[MrPixel]

There were some recent changes (weeks ago?) to the author CP that greatly improved performance. View changes were snappy, it loaded lightning fast, all was wonderful. I even think I posted something referencing @Manu , expressing appreciation for the improvement.

Meanwhile, back at the ranch, in the same approximate timeframe I was increasingly aggravated that my primary system was slowing down. Apps were slow to launch, keystrokes were delayed, pages slow to update. You know, the kind of stuff that makes one think, "Time for a new system?"

So I recalled discussion from years ago alleging the author CP demanded large amounts of processor attention. It was something I more or less ignored. So I launched the performance monitor app. Who was by far the biggest consumer of resources? Firefox. Quit Firefox, and suddenly all was right with the world. Restart Firefox, no problem. I restored the tabs I usually keep active to quick-switch between sites, and the activity spikes in the resource graph were consistent with new activity, and settled back down.

Now one of my "usually keep active" pages is the author CP.

At that point I notice the baseline activity - noise, essentially - was starting to creep up, yet I wasn't doing anything. I started closing tabs. Nothing out of the ordinary until I closed the author CP. "Noise" level suddenly dropped, and CPU percentage for Firefox also dropped. Found the culprit: author control panel was basically thrashing the system.

Solution? Don't keep the control panel open. Bookmark it, and close when done.

...sigh...

 

[pink_silk_glove]

Tell me about it. Control Panel is clunky as all hell. Nothing new.

 

[NotWise]

I don't see the problem.

I had Firefox open with the control panel in one tab and the forum in another. My WIP was open in LibreOffice in another window, and my story monitor was open. Network traffic was low and intermittent. Memory use is fairly high, but the system uses as much of the memory as it can in order to optimize speed. That doesn't have anything to do with Lit. CPU usage didn't exceed about 20% on any of the 20 CPUs that the system monitor sees.

I opened another site I commonly have available (CNBC US Markets News) and it created way more network traffic, and CPU usage went above 20% on several CPUs.

So I closed all but Firefox with just the forum tab, the system monitor, and my story monitor, and all measures of system usage are the same as they were with the control panel open.

 

[StillStunned]

Solution? Don't keep the control panel open. Bookmark it, and close when done.

Thanks for this. I've noticed that the last few weeks my computer has been performing like me trying to run a marathon, and was wondering what the issue was.

 

[WittyUserName]

Huh, I always have the control panel and haven't noticed any issues. I use Chrome and usually have quite a few things open.

 

[NotWise]

I tried the same exercise on my laptop. The system monitor sees eight CPUs and the system moves the load from one to another. After a flurry of activity to set up the control panel, the difference in system usage with and without the control panel open isn't noticeable.

 

[MrPixel]

Could be differences in OS and processor management. My main desktop is a fairly old Mac mini (dual core) running macOS 12.7.5. Maybe a bit wheezy for Java trickery.

 

[pink_silk_glove]

Some of us have slower connections. We know.

 

[AG31]

How come this isn't getting moved to Lit Tech Support???

Not that I think it should!! I'm a proponent of talking about anything in AH. Just commenting on lack of clarity about what is and isn't OK in AH, as I've had a few moved recently.

 

[NotWise]

How come this isn't getting moved to Lit Tech Support???

Maybe just because AH_Mod hasn't seen it yet.

 

[NotWise]

Could be differences in OS and processor management. My main desktop is a fairly old Mac mini (dual core) running macOS 12.7.5. Maybe a bit wheezy for Java trickery.

Eee, MrPixel. My cellphone has eight cores.

What do you think the control panel does that uses up your system? I know it checks every ten minutes or so to update views, etc, but that's the only thing I know that it does. It doesn't even have the cam girl links that other pages have.

 

[AG31]

I know it checks every ten minutes or so to update views, etc,

Where do we see views? I see them on other sites, but not here.

 

[VallesMarineris]

Could be differences in OS and processor management. My main desktop is a fairly old Mac mini (dual core) running macOS 12.7.5. Maybe a bit wheezy for Java trickery.

Checking CPU% on my Activity Monitor (M4 MB, Sequoia). Safari (which I abuse with a lot of open tabs, including the Lit CP) is very well behaved, not even in the top 10. Try Safari?

The new Max Minis are a big bargain in terms of MIPS/kilobuck. Maybe it's time?

 

[Bamagan]

How come this isn't getting moved to Lit Tech Support???

Not that I think it should!! I'm a proponent of talking about anything in AH. Just commenting on lack of clarity about what is and isn't OK in AH, as I've had a few moved recently.

For one thing, you start a lot of threads. Many of them lately have been rather repetitive along the theme of this comment, and in a more sprawling manner than the 'game' threads, which are mostly self-contained.
Perhaps the clarity issues are on your end? No, I will not explain myself at length; I believe you might need the practice. But I will give a clue...

"There are two types of people in the world: those who cannot extrapolate from incomplete data."

As for the OP, I haven't noticed much of an issue having the control panel open. I use Brave, though, so it might be limiting the functionality somewhat compared to other browsers.

 

[AG31]

For one thing, you start a lot of threads. Many of them lately have been rather repetitive along the theme of this comment, and in a more sprawling manner than the 'game' threads, which are mostly self-contained.

I saw that you were declining to explain further, but it does seem odd that posting repetitive threads (not sure that's true) should be a reason for moving a thread to Lit Tech Support. Just saying...

along the theme of this comment

Not sure what you're referring to here, but I for sure haven't posted about the control panel being a system hog.

 

[NotWise]

Where do we see views? I see them on other sites, but not here.

On the control panel, for instance:


The column chart icon followed by 20.7k is views. If you mouse over (or touch) the number if gives you the result without rounding (20741 in this case) and if you hover over it for a second with a mouse it'll tell you that the statistic is "views."

 

[AG31]

On the control panel, for instance:

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The column chart icon followed by 20.7k is views. If you mouse over (or touch) the number if gives you the result without rounding (20741 in this case) and if you hover over it for a second with a mouse it'll tell you that the statistic is "views."

Thank you!