All of a sudden the startup of UE has slowed down extremely. I have purged all deleted headers so the database is now 5MB (down from 981MB) and the reserved space is now 9.2MB (down from 1GB+).
The free disk space is 115GB.
I have run the diagnostics with no clues what might be wrong, but still the startup time is not improving.
What is the best approach to speed up the application startup time again?
tia
Olav[/img]
Startup slowed down from 3 sec to 1 minute
Startup slowed down from 3 sec to 1 minute
They ain't making bugs like Bunny anymore
what stage takes the time? reading directories?
check edit menu->bodies, you can e.g sort by date and delete what you don't need e.g. older than some date.
if too many article bodies like hundreds of thousands of files it takes time for windows just to read directories, UE needs it on start to synchronize downloaded article bodies.
if you don't need any previously downloaded article bodies you can just select everything (ctrl+a) and press the delete key to delete all downloaded article bodies, it will be the same as when UE is not running to delete the "Bodies" subdirectory in the UE database directory.
but normally article bodies are deleted automatically (depending on settings properties->save/unpack, save, saving attachments, delete bodies, if it is checked look what kind of files are left there, maybe incompletes with not enough par2 files to recover.
check edit menu->bodies, you can e.g sort by date and delete what you don't need e.g. older than some date.
if too many article bodies like hundreds of thousands of files it takes time for windows just to read directories, UE needs it on start to synchronize downloaded article bodies.
if you don't need any previously downloaded article bodies you can just select everything (ctrl+a) and press the delete key to delete all downloaded article bodies, it will be the same as when UE is not running to delete the "Bodies" subdirectory in the UE database directory.
but normally article bodies are deleted automatically (depending on settings properties->save/unpack, save, saving attachments, delete bodies, if it is checked look what kind of files are left there, maybe incompletes with not enough par2 files to recover.
Slow startup - Problem solved
I had less than 4000 short text messages in the database. All newsgroups was emptied, and all deleted headers was purged.
The Task manager in the startup dialog finished in two seconds before everything went on vacation for about one minute.
I have had millions of headers before with no rpoblems like this.
I tried to compact the database, but that also did not help.
I finally suspected that the hard drive where the database was located was very defragmented, so I moved the application and the database to another hard drive.
The problem was solved by this action, and UE now starts in less than 4 seconds, just like in the gool ole days.
The Task manager in the startup dialog finished in two seconds before everything went on vacation for about one minute.
I have had millions of headers before with no rpoblems like this.
I tried to compact the database, but that also did not help.
I finally suspected that the hard drive where the database was located was very defragmented, so I moved the application and the database to another hard drive.
The problem was solved by this action, and UE now starts in less than 4 seconds, just like in the gool ole days.
They ain't making bugs like Bunny anymore