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Unfinished business

Posted: Fri Jan 03, 2025 3:55 am
by MSpagni
While I was experimenting in order to have more details for the other problem, EDP got locked: no hourglass turning, no light beam movement on the progress bar, no change for more than 10 minutes, Windows saying "no response" (as you can see in the screenshot).
Pressing <esc> or clicking the <cancel> button only gets a dialog from Windows saying "It doesn't respond".
I saw this effect a few other times, but this is the first time it's reproducible: always 64%.

By the way, I'm quite mean: to have a lot of files to show I compared the c:\Windows directory (and subdirs) with itself. :wink:

Re: Unfinished business

Posted: Fri Jan 03, 2025 10:37 am
by psguru
Please create a process memory dump (you can use, for example, Process Explorer (from Microsoft's SysInternals suite), or even the Task Manager. In both apps right-click on the process and select Create Dump or similar), then send the dump to us.

Re: Unfinished business

Posted: Sat Jan 04, 2025 12:44 pm
by MSpagni
No, sorry, it's not really hanging. It's just ignoring the OS.
After having left it alone for many minutes it was finished...

Re: Unfinished business

Posted: Sat Jan 04, 2025 12:47 pm
by psguru
Still would be beneficial to know what was taking so long.

Re: Unfinished business

Posted: Sat Jan 04, 2025 2:00 pm
by psguru
Thanks for the process dumps. It turns out, the slow-downs are mostly due to the huge number of items to sort. One thing that will make things faster is if you did not use the "Show empty directories in recursive comparison" option.

Re: Unfinished business

Posted: Sun Jan 05, 2025 11:32 am
by MSpagni
psguru wrote: Sat Jan 04, 2025 2:00 pm It turns out, the slow-downs are mostly due to the huge number of items to sort.
Like having to resort to a sort merge with partial files?
psguru wrote: Sat Jan 04, 2025 2:00 pm One thing that will make things faster is if you did not use the "Show empty directories in recursive comparison" option.
Quite surprising!
After all, an empty directory should be just a single more item to sort together with 300,000 other items. :?

Sorry for the bothering.

Re: Unfinished business

Posted: Sun Jan 05, 2025 11:51 am
by psguru
Empty directories are bunched together during sorting, hence a need to determine the "emptiness". And that takes time.