Movie Wiz is slow for me....

[Dan Soussi]

My MovieWiz database has around 700+ entries and takes 25-30sec to initially load. I also get a similar delay switching between categories - hence something I tend to avoid. After the initial delay, all's well.

Not completely unrelated, but MW memory demands are high. It appears to consume about 1GB for itself. During MW start-up, it's interesting to watch the memory being consumed on a memory monitor. The memory consumption appears to only occur during the last 5 or so seconds and ramps up quickly. Does this suggest that there is some initial start-up inefficiency.

Curious! :confused:

Cheers,
Dan

[hakras]

I'm glad to hear that I'm not the only one. Being that you have double the entries that I have, I tend to think it is MW startup process.

[JavaWiz]

Here is a test version of MovieWiz where I've tried to speed up the load. If you could test it out and provide some feedback I'd appreciate.

• Shutdown PVRX2
  
• Rename plugins/MovieWiz/MovieWiz.dll to MovieWiz.dll.backup
  
• Unzip new DLL and place in plugins/MovieWiz
  
• Restart PVRX2 and check startup speed for plugin.
  

[Dan Soussi]

Hi JW,

I experimented with the revised DLL and can see a clear performance improvement. I see a PVRX2 memory hit on start-up and suspect that MW does it's initial load there. Much better. Hence initial MW load is immediate.

Switching categories appears much faster, too. Selecting any but "All Movies" categories is 5 secs or less and quite acceptable. "All Movies" categories still takes about 15 secs, but is down from 30 secs. I wonder if a database sort would help?

All changes in the revised DLL are much improved and welcome. Well done!

Cheers,
dan

[hakras]

I having a problem with the new dll. I renamed the original and copied the new one over. Then I restarted my server. Now MovieWiz opens MUCH FASTER but I am only getting a fraction of the movies. I have 300+ movies in the db, but MovieWiz only shows the movies that start with a number, the letter A, and the letter B. I am not seeing any other movies.

[JavaWiz]

I having a problem with the new dll. I renamed the original and copied the new one over. Then I restarted my server. Now MovieWiz opens MUCH FASTER but I am only getting a fraction of the movies. I have 300+ movies in the db, but MovieWiz only shows the movies that start with a number, the letter A, and the letter B. I am not seeing any other movies.

Here is another version with additional logging and a few tweaks. Try this one, zip and post your logs.

Switching categories appears much faster, too. Selecting any but "All Movies" categories is 5 secs or less and quite acceptable. "All Movies" categories still takes about 15 secs, but is down from 30 secs. I wonder if a database sort would help?

Yes, I'm thinking that an index on title would help here, I'll see about adding that,. I'm in the process of building a test db with several hundred entries so I can perform some test to see if it is worth it.

[Dan Soussi]

Hi,

I noticed that if you try to start the plug-in too soon after PVRX2 starts, the MW list get truncated. Changing the categories after the background load finishes forces the database to reload and all is well.

I have encountered a problem a couple of times now. If you exit MW to the GBPVR main menu and enter MW plugin again, the following error can occur:

Plugin initialization in progress ...
Please wait.

This message never ends. (I may have revised the MW database in the background. Could there be some new logic watching for a file time change?)

I guess logs would help, but I'm unsure which files to supply.

Cheers,
Dan

[JavaWiz]

Hi,

I noticed that if you try to start the plug-in too soon after PVRX2 starts, the MW list get truncated. Changing the categories after the background load finishes forces the database to reload and all is well.

I have encountered a problem a couple of times now. If you exit MW to the GBPVR main menu and enter MW plugin again, the following error can occur:

Plugin initialization in progress ...
Please wait.

This message never ends. (I may have revised the MW database in the background. Could there be some new logic watching for a file time change?)

I guess logs would help, but I'm unsure which files to supply.

Cheers,
Dan

If you can force an error, zip the logs and post.

[JavaWiz]

Try this version, should handle the startup (especially after exiting and re-entering the pluging).

[Dan Soussi]

Hi JW,

I did a couple of tests and captured the corresponding log file.

Event 1
I did not wait for the MW background load to complete and seleted MW plugin. It displayed the status message "Plugin initialization in progress ...", paused for a few seconds and completed normally. All movies were displayed under category "What's New".
Changing to category "All Movies" caused a memory usage growth of 800MB (total memory now 2.3GB) and throws the error:

Error translating column image. Exception of type 'System.OutOfMemoryExeption' was thrown.

Must kill PVRX2 to recover. :eek:

Event 2
I waited for the background load to complete. This was maybe 6 secs. Selecting the MW plugin I get all movies listed under category "What's New". Selecting category "All Movies" causes the same memory error and gets stuck. Must kill PVRX2 to recover. :eek:

I appreciate your focus on improving your plugin. I hope this helps with your debugging?

Cheers,
Dan