Is >5 min startup considered slow?

Bardo · October 13, 2021, 10:28am

Hi,

Activating Extensions...
Starting Julia Language server
2:20
Julia Language Server: Indexing packages...
8:12

VScode closed and started again

Activating Extensions...
Starting Julia Language server
0:42
Julia Language Server: Indexing packages...
5:40
Gui responsive, Julia evaluates.

julia> VERSION
v"1.7.0-rc1
  [6e4b80f9] BenchmarkTools v1.2.0
  [13f3f980] CairoMakie v0.6.5
  [e9467ef8] GLMakie v0.4.6
  [4b11ee91] Gaston v1.0.4
  [a2bd30eb] Graphics v1.1.1
  [4c0ca9eb] Gtk v1.1.9
  [d0351b0e] InspectDR v0.4.3
  [c3a54625] JET v0.5.0
  [ee78f7c6] Makie v0.15.2
  [961ee093] ModelingToolkit v6.6.0
  [f0f68f2c] PlotlyJS v0.18.8
  [91a5bcdd] Plots v1.22.6
  [c46f51b8] ProfileView v0.6.10
  [295af30f] Revise v3.1.20
  [90137ffa] StaticArrays v1.2.13
  [276b4fcb] WGLMakie v0.4.6
  [bd07be1c] Winston v0.15.2

Any hint to bring this time down appreciated.

lmiq · October 13, 2021, 10:59am

To me it takes “nothing”. So probably there is some problem there. The Julia server starts loading but in background and the interface is instantly responsive, I do not notice any lag.

edit: the Language sever and “indexing” here take about 30s, but I had never noticed that before, because they happen in the background and I can start working with the code almost instantly.

Bardo · October 13, 2021, 1:03pm

Hmm. I threw out all VScode extensions, now I am at 2 min after hitting the run triangle before evaluation starts. Can edit before, still showing Indexing… after evaluations.

lmiq · October 13, 2021, 1:56pm

Uhm… actually really it is pretty quick: gravacao-2021-10-13_10.50.34.mp4 - Google Drive

I’m on Linux Mint 20.2, and my VSCode extensions are:

Bardo · October 13, 2021, 2:11pm

Below 20s, you got the heart, I am getting jealous.
Dell laptop with i7 @2.6GHz.

lmiq · October 13, 2021, 2:29pm

Mine is a similar Samsung (3ys old). Probably not hardware related (SSD disk here).

dlakelan · October 13, 2021, 2:30pm

Windows or Linux?

Bardo · October 13, 2021, 2:31pm

Win10, SSD

dlakelan · October 13, 2021, 2:45pm

I wonder if its related to the slowdowns that made them change pkg in 1.7, something about virus checkers slowing access to trees of many files

Bardo · October 13, 2021, 3:27pm

I switched back to 1.62. Letting indexing finish.
Restarted, took 1:40 min to eval and started to index another package.
It ain’t over till… when?

dlakelan · October 13, 2021, 3:30pm

Briefly turn off your virus checker and see if it’s dramatically faster.

Bardo · October 13, 2021, 3:38pm

Not possible

dlakelan · October 13, 2021, 3:43pm

Which virus checker do you use? perhaps someone else can test this?

Bardo · October 13, 2021, 3:44pm

Symantec Endpoint Protection

Bardo · October 15, 2021, 11:12am

Removed .julia (was 6GB for 1.62 and 1.7).
Removed 1.62.

(@v1.7) pkg> st
      Status `C:\Users\xxx\.julia\environments\v1.7\Project.toml`
  [e9467ef8] GLMakie v0.4.6

2:10 min till start evaluation (no plot, Makie etc.)
No change.

dlakelan · October 15, 2021, 2:13pm

What happens at the command line? Is this a Julia thing or a vscode thing?

mrVeng · October 15, 2021, 2:23pm

Did you try out Atom and it has the same startup time?

Do you have a lot of julia files in your VSCode workspace?

Bardo · October 15, 2021, 2:30pm

Below 1 sec running a script via command line. So…

Bardo · October 15, 2021, 2:34pm

I had only a short encounter with Atom, then switched to VSCode. I do not remember.

Do you have a lot of julia files in your VSCode workspace?

8 directories, 50 files or so.

Bardo · October 15, 2021, 2:43pm

Jeff saw up to 20 min…
https://github.com/julia-vscode/julia-vscode/issues/1638#issue-690384724