Re: [orca-list] Sluggishness in flat review

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

Thanks Justin.

The fact that "powersave" makes Orca sluggish depresses me. So I'll 
still see if I can shave a little processing time off flat review.

--joanie

On 4/14/20 18:27, Justin Pospical wrote:
> I found the problem, and it wasn't related to Orca. I'm running tlp 
> (power management script), which by default sets the CPU performance 
> governor to "powersave". When I connected my computer to AC, the lag 
> went away. To be thorough, I disabled Braille (on battery) and still 
> noticed the lag. Sorry for the confusion!
>
> Justin
>
> On Tue, Apr 14, 2020, at 14:39, Justin Pospical wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Still running Orca from master, per my original post. I've attached 
> > debug output. Some of the processing times for generation are above 
> > 0.2s, is that typical? It's a small amount of time, but pretty 
> > noticeable here. Also, there appears to be an issue communicating with 
> > brltty, even though it's running, I'm in the brlapi group, and am 
> > getting Braille output. Not sure what's going on there, but I wonder 
> > if I'm missing a needed package.
> >
> > Justin
> >
> > On Mon, Apr 13, 2020, at 17:58, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> > > Hi Justin.
> > >
> > > Like José, I'm not seeing any sluggishness with the situation you
> > > describe. In fact, Orca's quite responsive for me. If you're able to
> > > test Orca master, that would be great. Failing that, mind capturing me a
> > > full debug.out so that I can see where Orca is spending extra time?
> > > https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Orca/Debugging
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > > --joanie
> > >
> > > On 4/13/20 15:12, Justin Pospical via orca-list wrote:
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > Environment: Arch, Orca master, and mate-terminal 1.24, though I've
> > > > experienced this with other terminals.
> > > > Steps to reproduce:
> > > > 1. In a terminal, run:
> > > > echo
> > > > 
> > > 'https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Google-Kexec-Windows-Linux' 
> > >
> > > > 
> > > <https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Google-Kexec-Windows-Linux> 
> > >
> > > > (hope my client preserves the apostrophes).
> > > > 2. In flat review, navigate up one line, to the URL.
> > > > 3. Move through it by character.
> > > > There is a small but very (to me) noticeable lag before each character
> > > > is announced. This is a comparatively mild example, and it doesn't
> > > > happen at all with some text; I've been looking for a string to 
> > > reliably
> > > > reproduce this for a long time. When a command has a lot of output, 
> > > the
> > > > lag sometimes happens when moving by word/line as well. This is one of
> > > > the few remaining issues that keeps me from switching to Linux
> > > > full-time. Can anything be done about this? If not, apologies for 
> > > the noise.
> > > >
> > > > Justin
> > > >
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> > > > Orca wiki: https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Orca
> > > > Orca documentation: https://help.gnome.org/users/orca/stable/
> > > > GNOME Universal Access guide: 
> > > https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/a11y.html
> > > >
> >
> >
> > *Attachments:*
> >
> >   * debug-2020-04-14-065013.out