Thanks so much. QS was regularly at the top of Activity Monitor when my machine was idle, it's now not even on the first page and is using a rational amount of CPU.
Have a good weekend and thanks for your ongoing work on QS. On Friday, 26 February 2021 at 13:41:30 UTC Rob McBroom wrote: > On 26 Feb 2021, at 7:03, Diggory wrote: > > > Hello, I love QS and have used it for years. > > > > Recently I find that it's using way too much CPU, even when idle. I'm > > loathe to wipe the prefs and "application support" folder as I fear it > > will > > lose all it's learned over the years. > > In general, when you’re not actively using it, Quicksilver seems to > spend most of its time scanning the list of running apps. That happens > whenever the active application changes. It does this mainly to figure > out the current scope so it can enable/disable the appropriate triggers. > Of course this happens frequently, but when I say “most of its > time”, we’re not talking about much CPU use really. > > > Is there any way to diagnose what is causing the CPU use? Perhaps > > it's one > > of the plugins. > > Taking a sample is a great start. 😀 > > In this case, it looks like it’s the Safari History catalog preset. I > disabled that a while ago and would recommend most people do the same. I > don’t remember if it was CPU use in my case, or just all the noise it > adds to the catalog interfering with day-to-day searches. > > With that preset disabled, you can still access the history in QS by > selecting Safari, hitting → or /, selecting History, then hitting → > or / again. Just be prepared to wait for all that CPU work in real-time > when you do. > > -- > Rob McBroom > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Quicksilver" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/blacktree-quicksilver/0f2eb93b-eadb-4564-9a04-1430db384081n%40googlegroups.com.
