accumulating projects in kate lead to excessive kate startup time due to git

Milian Wolff <[email protected]> Sat, 18 Jun 2022 14:15:42 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.kde.devel.kwrite
Message-ID	<4885217.thVcg5PcIX@milian-workstation>

Hey all,

Kate took ~4s to show its main window on my beefy workstation with lots of 
RAM, CPUs and speedy NVME disks. I found this quite odd and wondered about the 
reason so I sat down and profiled it. Perf shows a lot of external git 
processes running sequentially, which I could also replicate with strace:

```
$ strace -o kate.process.log -f --timestamps -e process kate
$ grep -E "execve.*git" kate.process.log  | wc
    159
```

See also: https://invent.kde.org/-/snippets/2234

The reason, it turns out, was that my kate accumulated a lot of projects, and 
all of them got queried for their git status.

I hope that you all agree that this isn't acceptable. The question now becomes 
how to resolve this:

a) I never knowingly opened a project in kate, this is all done automatically 
in the background. Is it expected that I should manually cleanup the project 
list then? Or can this be done automatically, e.g. by marking projects as 
unused after some time when we don't open a file in them in the last week or 
something like that?

b) Can we query the git status in parallel for all projects, instead of 
serially? My machine has 12 cores and 24 threads, and the NVME disk and ram 
should also allow this.

Thanks

PS: For now, I manually closed all projects and now have a fast kate startup 
once again.

-- 
Milian Wolff
[email protected]
http://milianw.de

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