ObjectDock Plus Performance Problems
Monday, May 30, 2005 by El_Squiddo | Discussion: ObjectDock
Ive been noticing my computer slowing down doing a lot of pretty basic things recently. Things like doing a Save As in Paint Shop Pro, navigating in FF and various things in my programming development environments (Delphi & VS.NET) were slowly driving me mad.
Now, my PC is pretty high end (Dual Xeon 2.8, 2 gig ram, NVidia 6800GT video, 10k rpm hds), but I was getting tired of the slowdowns and seriously considering whether it was time to reformat and reinstall or just upgrade the MB to something faster (dual core AMD's???).
Anyway - what finally broke the camel's back was a program Im writing. The process of filling in a button bar and creating 10 buttons was taking 11 seconds!!! This was just nuts. So I raised a support incident with the the component developer. In the process of this, I put together a demo program to demonstrate the problem. When I uploaded to my server, I decided to test it out to make sure it would work. Well, lo and behold - the test process ran in .2 seconds - on a Dual Pentium II-400 machine no less.
After much investigation, I determined that OD was the culprit. OD in general slows down the process quite a bit. Specifically if Ive got a dock showing the System Tray components, ALL of my other applications slow WAY down.
I see there have been other problems with performance using OD - here's a tip - get rid of the system tray docks.
Stardock - can you address this performance issue? If I shut down OD completely, my system speeds up immensely. This is really no good at all as I love OD - just not if its going to make everything else crawl...
khariV
Now, my PC is pretty high end (Dual Xeon 2.8, 2 gig ram, NVidia 6800GT video, 10k rpm hds), but I was getting tired of the slowdowns and seriously considering whether it was time to reformat and reinstall or just upgrade the MB to something faster (dual core AMD's???).
Anyway - what finally broke the camel's back was a program Im writing. The process of filling in a button bar and creating 10 buttons was taking 11 seconds!!! This was just nuts. So I raised a support incident with the the component developer. In the process of this, I put together a demo program to demonstrate the problem. When I uploaded to my server, I decided to test it out to make sure it would work. Well, lo and behold - the test process ran in .2 seconds - on a Dual Pentium II-400 machine no less.
After much investigation, I determined that OD was the culprit. OD in general slows down the process quite a bit. Specifically if Ive got a dock showing the System Tray components, ALL of my other applications slow WAY down.
I see there have been other problems with performance using OD - here's a tip - get rid of the system tray docks.
Stardock - can you address this performance issue? If I shut down OD completely, my system speeds up immensely. This is really no good at all as I love OD - just not if its going to make everything else crawl...
khariV
Koasati
Reply #2 Monday, May 30, 2005 8:42 AM
Reply #2 Monday, May 30, 2005 8:42 AM
I also use no magnifacation, with systray dock, running tasks dock, a frequently used shortcuts dock, and a tabbed dock with 11 tabs.
AMD Athlon XP 1800+
1.5 GB RAM
XP Home/SP2
AMD Athlon XP 1800+
1.5 GB RAM
XP Home/SP2
I did see some things slow to respond (mostly OD itself, starting up, shutting down, saving changes), until I excluded OD+ from being scanned by my AV...... you may want to try that.
If you do try that, be sure to exclude the files found in "C:\Documents and Settings\USER NAME\Local Settings\Application Data\Stardock\ObjectDockPlus"
El_Squiddo
Reply #3 Monday, May 30, 2005 11:19 AM
Reply #3 Monday, May 30, 2005 11:19 AM
Well, I've excluded the OD directory (actually all of Stardock) from my AV scan - no real change in my programming slow down. Only time will tell if it is slower doing "general" stuff and moving around.
As for memory footprint - my ODPlus is using 3M mem and 36M virtual memory. Not sure if that is common, but that's what you have.
BTW I've got 7 tabs on a single dock and I've turned off the sysTray dock for now.
As for memory footprint - my ODPlus is using 3M mem and 36M virtual memory. Not sure if that is common, but that's what you have.
BTW I've got 7 tabs on a single dock and I've turned off the sysTray dock for now.
JacknLime
Reply #4 Thursday, June 23, 2005 8:06 PM
Reply #4 Thursday, June 23, 2005 8:06 PM
Alright I finally figured out what was making the general slowdown happen on my computer. I was having the same kind of problem. I would run object dock and it would be lightening fast switching windows and viewing menus. Leave it on overnight and in the morning everything would be dead slow.
It was just the graphic drivers. I was running an older version of the dna-ati driver for my radeon 9800 pro. After I unistalled them and reinstalled some omega ati ones based on 3.4 no slow down. Been running solid with no crashes or slowdown for three days
It was just the graphic drivers. I was running an older version of the dna-ati driver for my radeon 9800 pro. After I unistalled them and reinstalled some omega ati ones based on 3.4 no slow down. Been running solid with no crashes or slowdown for three days
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Reply #1 Monday, May 30, 2005 3:46 AM
I use ODock Plus, with magnification off (1 normal dock, and 1 three-tab dock - no system tray docks).
No slow down issues and a fairly small memory foot print (about 6 MB on average).
Basic system (P4 2.5Ghz, 1 GB RAM, XP Pro w/SP2) - runs Photoshop 7, Painter 9, CorelDRAW 12, OfficeXP with no issues.
I attribute the low resources to No Magnification and No Systray (I like the traditional tray).