Calibre Running Really Slowly - Page 2

anthony81 · 10-24-2013, 09:15 PM

Just to add, debug is saying I'm running 32 bit windows but I'm on a 64 bit system?

calibre Debug log
calibre 1.7 isfrozen: True is64bit: False
Windows-7-6.1.7601-SP1 Windows ('32bit', 'WindowsPE')
('Windows', '7', '6.1.7601')
Python 2.7.5
Windows: ('7', '6.1.7601', 'SP1', 'Multiprocessor Free')
Starting up...
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theducks · 10-24-2013, 09:25 PM

Code:

calibre Debug log
calibre 1.7 [64bit]  isfrozen: True is64bit: True
Windows-7-6.1.7601-SP1 Windows ('64bit', 'WindowsPE')
('Windows', '7', '6.1.7601')
Python 2.7.5
Windows: ('7', '6.1.7601', 'SP1', 'Multiprocessor Free')
Starting up...
Started up in 16.27 seconds with 6493 books

W7 HP on a Toshiba Laptop AMD Turion II P540 2.4GHz

kovidgoyal · 10-24-2013, 10:45 PM

If you run the 32bit version of calibre it will always report windows as being 32 bits. That's an idiosyncracy of the way the python platform module works in windows.

PeterT · 10-24-2013, 10:49 PM

I'm curious to know what the performance is of a new install of calibre Portable on this machine (and of course a smaller library associated with it).

polly · 10-28-2013, 06:52 PM

Calibre Portable runs really slowly when placed on my data drive and normally when I put it on my OS drive. The answer is obviously to move my library to another drive, but I'm still baffled that everything else works normally pulling data from the data drive.

Thanks again to everyone who took the time to help me trouble shoot this.

PeterT · 10-28-2013, 06:56 PM

I wonder if there is some weirdness with the security access rights on the data drive; logging enabled or some such.

Also have you ever tried a defrag tool on the data drive? Maybe some of the O/S maintained data is badly fragmented?

BetterRed · 10-28-2013, 08:18 PM

@polly - is your data drive encrypted and/or compressed - I did some tests on compressed and encrypted folders and suffered no undue delays, my backup drive is compressed and calibre is OK running against libraries on it. But what I haven't tried is having the library on an encrypted drive.

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10-24-2013, 09:25 PM	#17
theducks Well trained by Cats Posts: 29,800 Karma: 54830978 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: The Central Coast of California Device: Kobo Libra2,Kobo Aura2v1, K4NT(Fixed: New Bat.), Galaxy Tab A	Code: calibre Debug log calibre 1.7 [64bit] isfrozen: True is64bit: True Windows-7-6.1.7601-SP1 Windows ('64bit', 'WindowsPE') ('Windows', '7', '6.1.7601') Python 2.7.5 Windows: ('7', '6.1.7601', 'SP1', 'Multiprocessor Free') Starting up... Started up in 16.27 seconds with 6493 books W7 HP on a Toshiba Laptop AMD Turion II P540 2.4GHz

10-24-2013, 10:45 PM	#18
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,856 Karma: 22666666 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	If you run the 32bit version of calibre it will always report windows as being 32 bits. That's an idiosyncracy of the way the python platform module works in windows. Last edited by kovidgoyal; 10-24-2013 at 10:50 PM.

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10-24-2013, 09:15 PM	#16
anthony81 thaumaturgist Posts: 32 Karma: 350010 Join Date: Oct 2013 Location: PA (USA) Device: Kindle PW1+2,K5,NST/NST Glow/Kobo Aura	Just to add, debug is saying I'm running 32 bit windows but I'm on a 64 bit system? calibre Debug log calibre 1.7 isfrozen: True is64bit: False Windows-7-6.1.7601-SP1 Windows ('32bit', 'WindowsPE') ('Windows', '7', '6.1.7601') Python 2.7.5 Windows: ('7', '6.1.7601', 'SP1', 'Multiprocessor Free') Starting up... Started up in 40.24 seconds with 30976 books

10-24-2013, 10:49 PM	#19
PeterT Grand Sorcerer Posts: 12,166 Karma: 73448616 Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Toronto Device: Nexus 7, Clara, Touch, Tolino EPOS	I'm curious to know what the performance is of a new install of calibre Portable on this machine (and of course a smaller library associated with it).

10-28-2013, 06:52 PM	#20
polly Evangelist Posts: 454 Karma: 270240 Join Date: Aug 2009 Device: Sony PRS 650, PocketBook 360, Astak PocketPro (RIP), Tungsten T3	Calibre Portable runs really slowly when placed on my data drive and normally when I put it on my OS drive. The answer is obviously to move my library to another drive, but I'm still baffled that everything else works normally pulling data from the data drive. Thanks again to everyone who took the time to help me trouble shoot this.

10-28-2013, 06:56 PM	#21
PeterT Grand Sorcerer Posts: 12,166 Karma: 73448616 Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Toronto Device: Nexus 7, Clara, Touch, Tolino EPOS	I wonder if there is some weirdness with the security access rights on the data drive; logging enabled or some such. Also have you ever tried a defrag tool on the data drive? Maybe some of the O/S maintained data is badly fragmented?

10-28-2013, 08:18 PM	#22
BetterRed null operator (he/him) Posts: 20,567 Karma: 26954694 Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Sydney Australia Device: none	@polly - is your data drive encrypted and/or compressed - I did some tests on compressed and encrypted folders and suffered no undue delays, my backup drive is compressed and calibre is OK running against libraries on it. But what I haven't tried is having the library on an encrypted drive. br