Long delays using Debug Probe

[Mark A. Schmucker]

I love the Debug Probe feature, especially used in combination with the call stack. However it sometimes pauses for many seconds, making it unusable. This seems to happen when I have large data objects. For example, if I'm at a breakpoint and I type the first few letters of "my_large_data_object" in the Debug Probe, the autocompletion list drops down, it freezes for maybe 20 seconds, then continues normally for a few more keystrokes and freezes again. There is no status on the status bar to indicate what it's doing.

 

I've disabled all features I could think of that might cause delays:

 - disabled scanning for file changes (by setting the update frequency to zero)

 - set my Search In Files string to blank

 - set my Search In Files to search in only the current file (the current file is not huge)

 - removed all watches

 - set the Huge Object thresholds low

 - removed conditional breakpoints

 

What could be causing the long pauses?

 

Thanks,

Mark

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Mark A. Schmucker wrote:
> I love the Debug Probe feature, especially used in combination with the
> call stack. However it sometimes pauses for many seconds, making it
> unusable. This seems to happen when I have large data objects. For
> example, if I'm at a breakpoint and I type the first few letters of
> "my_large_data_object" in the Debug Probe, the autocompletion list drops
> down, it freezes for maybe 20 seconds, then continues normally for a few
> more keystrokes and freezes again. There is no status on the status bar
> to indicate what it's doing.

Is the autocomplete list filled with symbol names?  Any chance you could
send us a test case?  My initial suspicion is that it's something in the
debugger, but that's only a guess.  If you don't have a test case,
please submit a bug report from within the IDE and include the error-log.

Thanks,

John
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[Mark A. Schmucker]

> Is the autocomplete list filled with symbol names?

It is filled with symbol names, and it correctly selects the symbol I'm
typing from that list. Then it freezes.

> My initial suspicion is that it's something in the debugger

Hmm, I am debugging remotely. I'm on a breakpoint, and the bug icon on the
status bar is yellow- "Debug process paused". I have a large number of
Allowed Hosts (about 50). Could it be listening for remote connections even
though it's on a breakpoint? But it seems to be related to the object size.

If that doesn't trigger any new ideas, I'll try to pare it down to a simple
test case- the current project is complex.

Mark

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To: Mark A. Schmucker
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Subject: Re: [wingide-users] Long delays using Debug Probe

Mark A. Schmucker wrote:
> I love the Debug Probe feature, especially used in combination with
> the call stack. However it sometimes pauses for many seconds, making
> it unusable. This seems to happen when I have large data objects. For
> example, if I'm at a breakpoint and I type the first few letters of
> "my_large_data_object" in the Debug Probe, the autocompletion list
> drops down, it freezes for maybe 20 seconds, then continues normally
> for a few more keystrokes and freezes again. There is no status on the
> status bar to indicate what it's doing.

Is the autocomplete list filled with symbol names?  Any chance you could
send us a test case?  My initial suspicion is that it's something in the
debugger, but that's only a guess.  If you don't have a test case, please
submit a bug report from within the IDE and include the error-log.

Thanks,

John


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Mark A. Schmucker wrote:
>> Is the autocomplete list filled with symbol names?
>
> It is filled with symbol names, and it correctly selects the symbol I'm
> typing from that list. Then it freezes.

Do you have the source assistant visible?  That could be triggering data
transfer from server to client.

Thanks,

John
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