Slowness in NCP

[David Fisher]

hi,

just wanted to report what seems to be slowness in NCP 4.8.1 - not in its operations - opening a document, inserting a note etc, but in typing. It felt slow as I typed, as if what appeared on the screen was "catching up" with my typing. But this can be a subjective perception.  So I checked Task Manager, and could see that when I started typing in NCP, CPU went up to about 20%.  For comparison, when typing in Word and various text editors it would go up to about 2%. Has anyone else experienced this? I've used NCP off and on for a while and I don't remember anything like this kind of slowness.  Basically I'd like to know a) is it just me and b) is there a diagnosis/solution.

cheers

David Fisher

[David Fisher]

OK, did some more investigation and think I know what is implicated in this. I have been setting line spacing to 1.5. When I put this back to a spacing of 1.0 I seem to get a normal CPU level of ~1% continually. If I change spacing to 1.5, the CPU starts going up as I type, getting to 20%. However, if I change the spacing to 1.5 (high CPU), then take it back down to 1.0, CPU stays high. So maybe it's the fact of changing line spacing as such.

[Miroslav Rajcic]

Hi David,

will try to benchmark things with line spacing, this seems to be a valuable info.

Regards,

  Miro

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[David Fisher]

I discovered another factor in the CPU problem. Working on a note, CPU went up to ~30%, however I had not changed line spacing on it. On looking into it discovered it was caused by a non-functioning link: the kind that gives an error message when you click on it. If I copied and pasted that link into a brand new note, I got the same high CPU %.

As with line spacing, once the note is affected in this way, you can't fix things by removing the link - CPU % will still be high if you type in that note. The only way to get the CPU back to normal and keep the text is to copy and paste it back as plain text. And it has to be all the text: not just the non-functioning link.

(tried to post this a few days ago, Google Groups is in one of its message-eating moods).

On Thu, Mar 6, 2025 at 5:31 PM David Fisher <7th...@googlemail.com> wrote:

[David Fisher]

I discovered another factor in the CPU problem. Working on a note, CPU went up to ~30%, however I had not changed line spacing on it. On looking into it discovered it was caused by a non-functioning link: the kind that gives an error message when you click on it. If I copied and pasted that link into a brand new note, I got the same high CPU %.

As with line spacing, once the note is affected in this way, you can't fix things by removing the link - CPU % will still be high if you are typing in that note. The only way to remove it and keep the text is to copy and paste it back as plain text. And it has to be all the text: not just the non-functioning link.

(tried to post this a few days ago but Google Groups is in one of its message-eating moods...)

[David Fisher]

I discovered another factor in the problem. Working on a note, CPU went up to ~30%, however I had not changed line spacing on it. On looking into it discovered it was caused by a non-functioning link: the kind that gives an error message when you click on it. If I copied and pasted that link into a brand new note, I got the same high CPU %.

As with line spacing, once the note is affected in this way, you can't fix things by removing the link - CPU % will still be high. The only way to remove it and keep the text is to copy and paste it back as plain text. And it has to be all the text: not just the non-functioning link.

On Saturday, March 1, 2025 at 8:48:48 AM UTC Miro wrote:

[David Fisher]

I discovered another factor in the CPU problem. Working on a note, CPU went up to ~30%, however I had not changed line spacing on it. On looking into it discovered it was caused by a non-functioning link: the kind that gives an error message when you click on it. If I copied and pasted that link into a brand new note, I got the same high CPU %.

As with line spacing, once the note is affected in this way, you can't fix things by removing the link - CPU % will still be high. The only way to remove it and keep the text is to copy and paste it back as plain text. And it has to be all the text: not just the non-functioning link.

(thought I'd posted this already but seems to have got lost, apologies if duplicated)

On Saturday, March 1, 2025 at 8:48:48 AM UTC Miro wrote:

[Miroslav Rajcic]

Hi David,

can you prepare a sample document (with a single note) that exhibits the problem and send it to me via email?

Also sharing your notecase_pro.ini file (configuration) would help.

If the note you work with has private info, you have "Tools > Modify Document as Sample" to replace text with "aaaa...".

Having an exactly the same file as you can save lot of testing effort.

Regards,

  Miro

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[David Fisher]

First of all, apologies for all the dupes. Next time I'll know to just let Google do its thing...

Miro, I'll put that together a test doc and send it to you. Hopefully it should illustrate the various cases I've discussed above.

cheers

David