[OPEN-ILS-DEV] ***SPAM*** Mac client slowness

[Carl E Johnson]

Does anyone have any wisdom to share regarding extreme slowness in the Mac client versus Windows/ Linux?

I have created several clients using the xulrunner —install-app method as well as SITKA pre-built clients and they all have been extremely slow compared to Windows or Linux.

The two main issues experienced are:
1) Slowness with any operation causing a tab to open or change, such as searching for patron, refreshing, creating new MARC record etc. It can take from 10 to 30 seconds for a page to load! Once open the operations are smooth, such as when checking in multiple items.
2) Toolbars do not save under Workstation Administration and must be re-added for each session.

This seems to be a Xulrunner problem with Macs. I am able to run the Mac app in Linux from the Terminal with no speed problems:

 xulrunner /MacHD/Evergreen.app/Contents/Resources/application.ini

So it appears to be a problem with how Macs handle the Xulrunner Framework, not with the Evergreen application itself. Can anyone suggest a way to debug this?

We are running version 2.2.3 with Xulrunner 1.9.2.8 but it has become very frustrating for our staff. One of our branch libraries using Macs has resorted to running Vmware to run Evergreen in Windows! I sometimes boot to a Linux openSUSE partition on my Mac to speed my workflow.

Carl Johnson
Clift Music Library
Phillips Academy Andover
North of Boston Library Exchange (NOBLE)

cjohnson1- at -a-n-d-o-v-e-r-.-e-d-u


This is my first post so please forgive me if I stumbled.
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