255561 - calendar extremely slow on start, new event creation, and modifying events

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 198142

(Calendar :: General, defect)

Description

[Brad Woodcock]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040616
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040616

When I start calendar, it takes over a minute before the calendar window plots 
during which all mozilla windows won't respond.  If I start calendar without the
rest of mozilla (mozilla -calendar) it takes just as long.  If I add a new
event, the window to add the event comes up in normal time, but when I save the
event it takes over a minute to save.  If an alarm pops up, regarless of whether
I choose to snooze, acknowledge or whatever, it takes over a minute for normal
function to return.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Start calendar
2.  
3.

Actual Results:  
It takes a very long time before calendar starts, and every action that involves
the calendar file takes over a minute to complete.

Expected Results:  
Open in 2-10 seconds?  Something faster than a minute at any rate.

The .ics file is 441851 in size.

Comment 1

[gekacheka]

Hi, developers will need specific details to reproduce the problem:

Program:
What version of Calendar are you using (calendar: help | about calendar) ?

Computer:
On what kind of computer is Calendar running?  100Mhz Pentium? 

Network:
Are any of your files remote?  Are you running with a remote X-windows client?

Data:
What view is displayed (day, week, multiweek, month)?  How many events in view?
How many tasks?  How many displayed in task list?
How many events?  How many displayed in event list?

Could you provide an example file that exhibits the problem?
(Is it possible to narrow it down to particular events that are causing a
problem, such as events that recur every day?)

Comment 2

[Justin Wood (:Callek)]

The bulky ics file may also likely be your problem...

...Along with the fact that we currently do most of the hard-peeking/sorting
work of the events in the JS (from my glances), though we do use the Cpp for
reading it, (as far as I understand it).

Perhaps the work requested/decided which stems from Bug #217550 and of its
dependancies will help this alot.

Comment 3

[Joey Minta]

Reporter:
I agree with Justin's comment on this bug.  The large .ics file is most likely
the problem.  Can you please try to load Calendar with a blank calendar file
instead and see if this is indeed the source of the problem?  If it can be
traced to this, then please mark this bug as a duplicate of bug 198142.

Comment 4

[Joey Minta]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 198142 ***

Comment 5

[Reed Loden [:reed]]

The bugspam monkeys have been set free and are feeding on Calendar :: General. Be afraid for your sanity!