Quanta gone wrong
Bobby <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.kde.devel.quanta.user |
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Hi, Imagine this scenario. You have a 2GHz+ system with 1.5G RAM. Only a couple of running applications. Plenty of free resources. The latest updates from KDE and Fedora 7 has been a well operating environment since it came out. You start Quanta. Cool looking app with many nice features. You start developing a web site with ten pages. Where the largest is under 60k. You make some changes over time, and then as you type the last few words the system stops responding. Looking at the CPU tool you see it's running full hilt. After 10 seconds it resumes, emptying the buffer of what you just typed. This escalates to 45 sec. Then 5 minutes. Now for every few words you are waiting for who knows what to complete. Checking top you see that it is all Quanta chewing away. Then you get 4K in swap space. Looking over all the nice features like auto completions and the like, you start turning off each one in an attempt to isolate the culprit. After having turned off every imaginable option it is still eating cpu for every few keystrokes. Fortunately the modern kernel allows you to do other work while Quanta continues to try to waste your time. Quanta is the only app that does this. Of all tools (IDE's and text editors) that I've used in the last 10 years, I really loved Quanta. With the built in documentation, ease of updating the web site, etc, it is otherwise the best web development environment I've ever used. (Quanta 3.5.7 on KDE 3.5.7-21-fc7) What do I do to overcome this anomaly? -- Bobby