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[jon <jomara@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Update: Splitting the notebook again prevents freezing so 'normal 
service is resumed' - So for me the practical limit on notebook size 
seems to be around 3k items - 600 folders (4.4MB txt plus attachments).

This freezing-during-typing issue seems to be a whole different thing to 
the primary indexing performance described in 
https://github.com/zim-desktop-wiki/zim-desktop-wiki/wiki/Performance-large-notebook

I always say I would not be surprised if this issue is not specific to 
Zim but a bottleneck within Win10 - or compatibility with encryption 
(bitlocker) - antivirus - nefarious (bloatware or spyware) - or some 
tangential PC architecture issue (e.g. power saving or USB or ??).

OTHER sw I use also suffer IO lagging on occasion. But given my laptop 
is <2y old (i7 and 8GB ram) in 2022...it's disappointing to still be 
suffering performance issues.

Thanks,

Jon

On 27/04/2022 12:47, jon wrote:
> Update: It turns out the freezing wasn't fixed. Currently I can't type 
> a full line without Zim freezing for a few seconds.
>
> I audited my notebook and removed any file types that might confuse 
> Zim, so only txt jpg and png remain now. But that hasn't helped.
>
> The problem maybe worse due to the size of the notebook - any advice 
> on this is welcome.
>
> But fundamentally the issue seems to be the Zim internal logic of when 
> to do its own housekeeping (saving? indexing?) - too often.
>
> If the devs are reading this, I would really appreciate the ability to 
> change this setting. Or maybe the logic could be changed permanently 
> so that when the user is active (i.e. typing) Zim doesn't hijack the 
> activity.
>
> Earlier I was blaming the file size but perhaps I also updated the 
> software version recently. This only started happening a few 
> days/weeks ago I think.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jon
>
> On 20/04/2022 10:24, jon wrote:
> > Repost of earlier post body.. without embedded attachment (seemed to 
> > hijack the post):
> >
> > Also updated: Reducing the notebook to 4,036 Files, 831 Folders, 
> > 14.4MB - and the freezing during text entry stops happening - Great!
> >
> > Does that mean I can't have a notebook much bigger than that, or is 
> > something else going on?
> >
> > > Update to earlier post 'Imported a lot of files, now indexing is 
> > > taking forever' -
> > >
> > > I've been trying to get the balance right in notebook size v 
> > > performance, but still have major issues. In its current form my 
> > > notebook is unusable bc the PC freezes for a few seconds after 
> > > typing just a few letters... it seems to be saving/indexing/? every 
> > > x seconds even if I am typing.
> > >
> > > I will reduce my notebook size again until it behaves normally. But 
> > > perhaps you could consider reducing background activity during text 
> > > entry? or allow the user to pause re-indexing?
> > >
> > > My notebook is currently 4532 items, 14.7MB
> > >
> > > Due to my importing of files, some 'dodgy' files made it through - 
> > > Is the presence of these filetypes likely to pose a problem for Zim? 
> > > In a perfect world, I would like Zim to be completely integrated 
> > > with my folder organisation, to avoid having one tree for Zim and 
> > > another for (say) PDFs.
> > >
> > > (I did follow the Help file protocols to ensure filenames had no 
> > > spaces and the Zim txt headers were applied. Indexing on first 
> > > import using the external script you provided took only a few minutes).
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> > > Jon
> >
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