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  • Why does Usenapp hang so often?

    From D.M. Procida@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jan 30 09:57:39 2025
    Regularly, I will have to sit and watch Usenapp spin a beachball for several seconds; I can't see why. I sometimes find it quite laggy, when typing for example.

    Is that other people's experience too?

    Daniele

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  • From Alan B@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jan 30 10:17:48 2025
    D.M. Procida <daniele-at-vurt-dot-org@invalid.com> posted:

    Regularly, I will have to sit and watch Usenapp spin a beachball for several seconds; I can't see why. I sometimes find it quite laggy, when typing for example.

    Is that other people's experience too?

    Not seeing that here. Suggest you contact the developer André on the Usenapp Support forum.

    < https://www.usenapp.com/forum/>

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    Cheers, Alan

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  • From Tyrone@21:1/5 to daniele-at-vurt-dot-org@invalid.com on Thu Jan 30 17:51:05 2025
    On Jan 30, 2025 at 4:57:39 AM EST, "D.M. Procida" <daniele-at-vurt-dot-org@invalid.com> wrote:

    Regularly, I will have to sit and watch Usenapp spin a beachball for several seconds; I can't see why. I sometimes find it quite laggy, when typing for example.

    No problems here. It's blindingly fast even on my 11 year old Mini with a crappy Intel i5 and 8GB ram.

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  • From Jaimie Vandenbergh@21:1/5 to daniele-at-vurt-dot-org@invalid.com on Thu Jan 30 23:52:57 2025
    On 30 Jan 2025 at 09:57:39 GMT, "D.M. Procida" <daniele-at-vurt-dot-org@invalid.com> wrote:

    Regularly, I will have to sit and watch Usenapp spin a beachball for several seconds; I can't see why. I sometimes find it quite laggy, when typing for example.

    Is that other people's experience too?

    Daniele

    Not seen that. I occasionally come back to it to find it spinning its
    cogs attempting to download a new batch but not actually doing anything,
    which needs a restart.

    Since it also uses several % of CPU while it should be idle, I just
    close it between uses now. That avoids the issue and slurps less
    battery.

    Although.... just checking now, that bug seems to have been fixed, it's
    down in the 0.1% range today. Yay Andre!

    Cheers - Jaimie
    --
    Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of
    producing random digits is, of course, in a state
    of sin. -- John von Neumann

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  • From TimS@21:1/5 to jaimie@usually.sessile.org on Fri Jan 31 13:57:42 2025
    On 30 Jan 2025 at 23:52:57 GMT, "Jaimie Vandenbergh" <jaimie@usually.sessile.org> wrote:

    On 30 Jan 2025 at 09:57:39 GMT, "D.M. Procida" <daniele-at-vurt-dot-org@invalid.com> wrote:

    Regularly, I will have to sit and watch Usenapp spin a beachball for several >> seconds; I can't see why. I sometimes find it quite laggy, when typing for >> example.

    Not seen that. I occasionally come back to it to find it spinning its
    cogs attempting to download a new batch but not actually doing anything, which needs a restart.

    Sometimes it seems to get stuck trying to download items, but it doesn't time out and there doesn't seem to be a mechanism to abort that process.

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    Tim

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  • From Frederick@21:1/5 to TimS on Fri Jan 31 17:49:10 2025
    In message <m0436mF7sebU1@mid.individual.net>
    TimS <tim@streater.me.uk> wrote:

    On 30 Jan 2025 at 23:52:57 GMT, "Jaimie Vandenbergh" <jaimie@usually.sessile.org> wrote:

    On 30 Jan 2025 at 09:57:39 GMT, "D.M. Procida" <daniele-at-vurt-dot-org@invalid.com> wrote:

    Regularly, I will have to sit and watch Usenapp spin a beachball for several seconds; I can't see why. I sometimes find it quite laggy,
    when typing for example.

    Not seen that. I occasionally come back to it to find it spinning its
    cogs attempting to download a new batch but not actually doing
    anything, which needs a restart.

    Sometimes it seems to get stuck trying to download items, but it doesn't
    time out and there doesn't seem to be a mechanism to abort that process.

    Maybe delayed negotiation at/with individual.net?

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    Fred

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  • From Bernd Froehlich@21:1/5 to TimS on Fri Jan 31 17:51:04 2025
    On 31. Jan 2025 at 14:57:42 CET, "TimS" <tim@streater.me.uk> wrote:

    Sometimes it seems to get stuck trying to download items, but it doesn't time out

    Yup, about once every few weeks over here.


    and there doesn't seem to be a mechanism to abort that process.

    Quit and restart solves it every time for me.

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