Draw.io dekstop - zooming in and out takes some time - can I prevent it?

[Piotr Gawroński]

Hello.

I am using draw.io to organise my life in general - that is I use it as a mind map with text editor embedded. I have some text, some diagrams, many containers etc.

Thus, I often zoom out to move quickly to another part of the diagram and then I zoom in to read it's contents. However after zooming in or out, it takes maybe 0.5s before I can move around the diagram again.

My question is, is that related to the innate performance of the app (that is, since I have perhaps more elements that were expected from standard usage, it will always be like that) or is my pc too weak in some manner - but having looked at the task manager while zooming in and out, neither ram nor cpu seems to be a bottleneck.

I could upgrade some parts of my pc (which is basically quite weak, 4gb ram, phenom 3.2), but there is no point in doing so, of course, if the matter is in 'choosing wrong tool for the job' :).

Thank you kindly for any replies.

Regards

Piotr

[draw.io Q&A]

Version?

[Piotr Gawroński]

21.3.7. I updated before posting. And after updating I had a feeling that the issue improved, although slightly - so slightly that I am not sure whether it actually improved, or I imagined that. And sorry for forgetting about including version, I remembered about that....until I forgot.

[Piotr Gawroński]

Ok, I found the culprit - cpu. I upgraded (or downgraded, depends) my cpu from amd phenom II x2 555 3.2GHz to Athlon II x4 635 2.9GHz. The latter is ~10% worse on single-thread tasks, but ~70% better on multi-threaded tasks (via cpu-world.com) and now when trying to quickly zoom in, zoom out, move around via shift+scroll, edit element, and so on, the lag is very small, it is no longer annoying to me :) Writing this in case anybody have similiar issues.

Also, the update I mentioned did actually improve things - not very much, but it was not illusory.

[draw.io Q&A]

Thanks for updating the thread. Interesting that more cores helped, would have to think why that might be the case...