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Hanging up and eating processes
Since last night's build have had multiple "application not responding" force quits, spinning beach balls etc. Grabbed a screen cap of eating up 94-99% of processes consistently.
Not sure what's up. Love the favorites though!
Not sure what's up. Love the favorites though!
I’m wishing i had the last build back.
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Inappropriate?Are you able to reproduce the hangup? -
Inappropriate?Seems like every time the computer goes to sleep, eventually the processes get pegged, and the fan starts operating continually. When woken from sleep, app needs a force quit as it is not responding. Starts back up just fine, though (some) events are lost. -
Inappropriate?Any chance you'd send me a download link to the prior build? Unfortunately I need to force quit and restart several times a day. This build is basically unusable.
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Inappropriate?Can you email us at cm-support to resolve this? Thanks.
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Inappropriate?Can you also let us know which plugins you have enabled? Thanks.
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Inappropriate?Facebook, Flickr, Feeds and Twitter. I could definitely give up Facebook if you think that's the problem. But the way EventBox has been acting with this build (hanging up, being able to use the app without it being in focus) makes me think it might be a bigger issue than that.
Though it looks like I'm the only one having this problem eh? Maybe trash preferences and start over?
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Inappropriate?We tried to reproduce your problem and we couldn't. We also haven't heard of any other users having the same problem so we've got no idea what the problem is. If we were able to reproduce it, we could fix it but it could some external factor causing this (e.g. some other app, etc). I guess you could try thrashing the prefs and starting over. Let me know how that goes.
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Inappropriate?::waves::
Not sure if this is related, but I just had to force-quit eventbox after it locked up and started consuming vast amounts of CPU (eventbox and kernel_tasks were both chewing about 45% each)
Following that I got the "Your trial period has expired" message, which considering that I downloaded eb there days is a bit mistaken. Trashing prefs and restarting might resolve that; will check later.
I’m mildly annoyed
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Inappropriate?@rdi are you sure you haven't installed EventBox earlier? You can get a trial extension by emailing us.
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Inappropriate?Quite. Hadn't even heard of it before this week.
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Inappropriate?Since updating to v567 I'm seeing this same behavior, both at home and at work. When I wake my computer from sleep in the morning, everything is grindingly slow and Activity Monitor says EventBox is "Not Responding." I kill it and everything returns to normal. Tried turning off Facebook and using Twitter only, but no change. Let me know if I can send logs or anything.
I’m slow
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Inappropriate?For me EventBox also hangs everytime it updates Google Reader Items. It uses ~98% of CPU time and is completely unresponsive. Then after about 30-50 sec it returns to normal. I have already set simultaneous downloads to the minimum, but that did not change anything.
I’m annoyed
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Inappropriate?If you're experiencing hanging during refresh / slow startup, give this experimental build a go (http://thecosmicmachine.com/downloads...) - it should improve things.
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Inappropriate?r571 does not resolve my (same issue) on refresh/startup. During event deletion, app also has significant BBOD time.
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Inappropriate?i had these problems aswell (hanging/freezing after startup). after installing the latest bleeding edge (just yet) the problem hasn't been fixed.
it wakes up after all events have been fetched though (but takes at least a couple of minutes).
i had 222 unread events; deleting twitter from my services (which gave the most unread events the problem is still there.
facebook/flickr and google reader are now the only services I use.
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Inappropriate?note: after removing facebook and flickr aswell EventBox still hangs on startup (using 96% CPU). this stops after the service(s) have/has been fully fetched.
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Inappropriate?Using r571, I am still seeing the problem. It seems as if the application is simply losing user I/O during the updates, where I get the beachball for the duration of the updates.
On my setup, I have Twitter and Google Reader configured. The problem seems to be largely due to the amount of time it takes to update the Google Reader feeds, as the Twitter updates occur fairly quickly.
I am not having to do a force quit, as the application comes back after the updates are done.
Is this a threading issue or perhaps something on the Google interface side relative to communications?5 Comments
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This solves the problem
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It's related to the number of feeds / feed posts, especially the number of feed posts. One way to confirm that this is the issue you're having and not a different one, is to locally delete (select and right-click --> delete) all the feed posts you're not interested in anymore. The next refresh should not hang. -
@Milen, thanks for your reply. A question. It is taking about 5-6 minutes per 'tag' to delete the old/read Google Reader posts in the manner that you describe above. I select the top/newest post and then shift-select the bottom/oldest post to highlight and delete all posts for the tag.
Is there a quicker way? For example, since this information is preserved between sessions, I presume that you must store it on disk someplace. Is there a file or files that I can either delete or edit in some way to remove these posts?
I am coming off 8 years of using RH/Fedora Linux, so I am very comfortable at the CLI and modifying config files, etc.
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There is one thing you could try but I haven't tested it, so I'm not absolutely sure what *exactly* is going to happen (basically, it will be like initializing the the GR plugin for the first time, only difference being that you wouldn't have to enter your password as it's already saved).
The file to delete is ~/Library/Application Support/EventBox/com.thecosmicmachine.googleplugin/data.bin -
@Milen, this did not seem to help. I deleted the file (with EB shut down), restarted EB and the same behavior occurred (loss of I/O and the pinwheel spinning) while GR updated.
I should note that after GR updated, old read posts were present. I might have expected them to be gone after deleting the file. Are these cached someplace else in a file or will EB re-download read posts up to a certain number?
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@Milen, the new 572pre build (http://is.gd/xUad) does seem to help. It is definitely faster at updating the Google Reader feeds than 571. While I still get the pinwheel, it is only lasting for about 5-10 seconds now, as opposed to 30 or more previously.
I should perhaps note that I have 240 GR RSS subscriptions going into 32 tags. So perhaps the volume of my situation is one source of the problem.
Thanks for the continued improvements.
