A new (probably temporary) user on Facebook needs to move a 161,279 file from PAF to Gramps via GEDCOM . Import took 17 minutes. They wondered if Gramps would be so slow everywhere. After thinking about it, it seemed like the only feature likely to take longer would (understandably) be the Narrated …

Working on the same user’s problem, discovered that the Add/Remove Tag using the Ancestors of <person> is unbearably slow tagging 48,819 people. (It’s at 30 minutes and about halfway done. took 75min) The next step will be to use the same tool remove that tag from people with a parent… which shoul…

Once again, I would like to draw the community’s attention to the growing demand from users for improved application performance. Nowadays, people are not willing to spend a lot of time waiting as they did decades ago when PCs were just beginning to appear in homes; they want to be efficient in thei…

[image] emyoulation: The next step will be to use the same tool remove that tag from people with a parent… which should leave just the earliest known ancestor in each direct line. Took 95 minutes I think we can can improve that substantially. I have some ideas. Where is the best place to disc…

[image] dsblank: I think we can can improve that substantially. Preliminary Discussion here seems to be more “findable” when blue-skying histories for similar issues in another feature. When the plan hits its 1st commit, discussion should shift to GitHub. You’re right, there are a lot of Deve…

[image] emyoulation: I was wondering if this was similar to the problem corrected for deleting large quanities of objects… where signals were making it try to refresh the GUI too much? I guess as we move forward, there are general solutions across all of Gramps, and particular solutions for s…

[image] dsblank: can you describe the process you took to apply the tag to the filter? I want to make sure I can replicate the situation Starting point: Testing a workflow for a new User that has a 161,000 tree grown (in PAF) over 19 years and imported as a GEDCOM. The tree has a LOT of inter…

How are you tagging? I routinely run a filter to find those related to each of my grandparents (their branch). For one branch, the filter found 129,554 relatives out of 240,369 total people in 141.84 seconds Then to tag that list it took 5.05 minutes. 5.2.3-2 on Win10

I used the Add/Remove Tag tool with a new tag and the IsRelatedWith rule. Are you tagging from the filtered view instead? <filter name="Related" function="and" comment="related to Home Person"> <rule class="IsRelatedWith" use_regex="False" use_case="False"> <arg value="HJS-4203-…

I tagged the selected list in the People view.

Does View tagging work when there are more than 1,000 records in the View? Gtk had a hard limit of 1,000 records for tables. Some features (like SuperTool by @kku ) have made special accommodations to get past that limit.

What are the slowest Features in Gramps

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What are the slowest Features in Gramps

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