My experience is that all QS slowness is usually a catalog that's very large because of lots of items, large items in the shelf or clipboard history or trying to index a network folder on a slow network. It's all captured in the FAQ: http://groups.google.com/group/blacktree-quicksilver/web/faq
Howard On Oct 10, 2010, at 5:14 AM, Lvood wrote: > Dear all, > > I'm also having problems with QS being very very slow sometimes. > For example: > I just opened QS, chose the current selection in Finder with Cmd-G and > then typed "BN" for the action which is defined as shortcut for "move > to". > It took about 20 seconds (!) until QS showed the correct action! > > I retried it again shortly afterwards, and now it worked perfectly > fast. > > I'm using the 32bit Kernel (according to uname -a). > > The Caches in ~/Library/Caches/Quicksilver/Indexes altogether have a > size of 27 MB. > > The folder ~/Library/Application Support/Quicksilver/Shelves has a > size of 600 MB! > 376 for the Clipboard history (100 items) and the rest for a hidden > file .dat9d95.1de (224 MB) which was created and changed in March > 2010... > > I removed both files, quit and restarted QS and at least at the moment > the action "move to " now is shown nearly instantly.... > I'll watch the behavior and tell you how it went on... > > What's your experience with speed of QS? > > Martin > > > On 7 Okt., 23:08, Luigi Amedeo Bianchi <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Oct 7, 2010, at 23:02, Accordion Noir wrote:> How do I know if I'm >> running the 64 or 32 bit kernel? How do I switch >>> back if I'm in the 64? >> >> If you didn't switch it's probably the 32bit kernel. >> To check it open a terminal and type uname -a >> If it shows "i386" then you're running a 32 bit kernel. >> >>> Thanks all for working on this. >> >> Well, I didn't actually do any work, just some reasoning and testing. >> >> lab
