Submitted by mca1 on 2011/09/08 13:28
Hi there,
 
since 2009 I tried a lot of tools to support my daily planning and work-routines. At the moment I stick with MyLifeOrganized (MLO) but after discovering InfoQube I am really up to a change. This seems by far the most promising project I came across in the last years. As I am also quite satisfied with MLO I want to make sure that InfoQube fits all my needs before I go for it.
 
One thing that disturbs me right now is a noticeable increase in CPU load when I navigate through or simply click in the grid. InfoQube sits with zero CPU and about 32megs of Mem, but when I click inside the cells the CPU loads goes up to ~20-30% and the fan of my notebook jumps in.
 
This is quite disturbing. I fluent working inside the grid is hindered by that at the moment. Is there anything I can do against it or will it be handled until the first final relase?
 
By the way - if others could check that if they have the same appearance, that would be nice...
 
 
Thx in advance.

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Hi mca1,
 
Welcome to the IQ forum !
 
Which panes are open ? The properties pane, and to a lesser extent the HTML pane do require a fair amount of CPU to refresh. Try closing these and report back
 
[edit] Turning off Tooltips and ensuring that the notification pane is closed also helps ! [/edit]
 
HTH !
 
Pierre
 

mca1

2011/09/08 14:35

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Hi there,
 
thanks four your quick reply. Unfortunately that brought no improvement. The HTML pane was open, I closed it but the CPU load while clicking through the grid was at 20% . With all panes open or all panes closed there are no changes. Overall the reactions of the InfoQube App are quite slow and tardy. That's too bad :(

Armando

2011/09/08 15:22

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[quote=mca1]
Hi there,
 
thanks four your quick reply. Unfortunately that brought no improvement. The HTML pane was open, I closed it but the CPU load while clicking through the grid was at 20% . With all panes open or all panes closed there are no changes. Overall the reactions of the InfoQube App are quite slow and tardy. That's too bad :(
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Does the CPU stay at 20-30% all the time ? Or does it go back to 0-2 ?
 
Scrolling or mooving the focus from one item to the other should be fast, but it will of course demand some CPU poser, as with any other "similar" PIM with grid components. For fun, I just compared with Outlook 2003 (less demanding than its more recent versions), and moving the focus from one item to the other brings the CPU to 20-30%.
 
Now, if the CPU usage stays at 20-30%, regardless the focus movement, then something else is going on.
 
I'm thinking that IQ might be doing its daily recalculations (one a day, IQ recalculates certain daily equations to keep dates and other field values updated, for tasks items etc.). Try leaving it alone for a few minutes and see if it goes back to normal.
 
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mca1

2011/09/08 16:00

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no, I forgot to mention that... of course the CPU load goes back to normal, after I made my work through the grid the usage almost instantly goes back to 0%, so this is fine.
 
I only was used to the feeling of "my Life organized" where scrolling and clicking in the grid almost does not increase the cpu load at all and scrolling is much more fluent. So I assumed something was wrong...or I can "tune" something for some improvements.
 
 
Anyway, if there is no solution and that's only an issue to the handling - I think this won't prevent me from buying a license as soon as we have version 1.0. This nice piece of software is just too powerful to stay without it.

Armando

2011/09/09 14:47

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Hi mca1,
 
Here, it's mostly the rapid scrolling down and up (i.e. grid displayed items move up or down in the window) that will brin CPU consumption between 30-40%. However, in most grid operations, CPU hovers between 5 an 15%, even moving rapidly from one item to the other, depending on what I'm doing.
Typing inside a cell takes almost no CPU power.
 
Hopefully, that's what you're experiencing too.
 
As far as IQ's power go: yes, it can do a lot. It's important to understand its basic principles though and have a look at the "Getting Started" pages of the manual (online or by pressing F1 while in IQ). Users who don't take a few minutes to understand how grids, items and fields relate to each other are sometimes turned off... quite unfortunately.
 
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mca1

2011/09/10 12:04

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yes, you are right - I face the same experiences, too. almost no cpu during typing, 30-40 during scrolling. That's a little bit nasty, but I think the complex relational database structure in the background doesn't allow anything else...
 
Currently I am working through the whole manual, I think I can estimate the complexity behind InfoQube as I am familiar with databases and programming (former IT student, now a professional) - anyway I am fully with you according your hint to go through the manual. It's quite valueable.
 
 
To the end I am going a little bit off-topic: As I am quite happy with InfoQube so far, IF I am deciding to go for a personal licence now during the beta phase, will that licence be valid for the first 1.0 (and beyond) or only for the beta stadium?
 
Thanx in advance...

Pierre_Admin

2011/09/10 13:20

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Hi mca1
 
>To the end I am going a little bit off-topic: As I am quite happy with InfoQube so far, IF I am deciding to go for a personal licence now during the beta phase, will that licence be valid for the first 1.0 (and beyond) or only for the beta stadium?
 
Of course it will !