Slow Rendering
In TiddlyWikis with a large amount of tiddlers, the listings in SideBarTabs (e.g. Timeline) might require a long time to be generated, thus inhibiting the overall performance.
cf. Tips for speeding up performance on large TiddlyWikis
Quote:Dave
I recommend disabling animations even on medium-sized tiddlywikis. Animations slow it down. Also, if your file gets big you will want to open the shadowed tiddler tab rather than the tab listing all tidders A-Z or by date. Or hide the tabbed menus altogether if you don't need them showing. With each new tiddler, the image of the two tabbed lists I mentioned (all and by date) has to be refreshed and can take a while. You can remove the tabbed lists from the page layout by removing their code from PageTemplate. Nevertheless, I have a couple TiddlyWikis with 1,000s of tiddlers that each have form fields, and I am not noting any other performance
issues yet.
Plugin Load Times
Eric
The plugin 'load timer' information is available in the shadow tiddler, PluginManager, which is also accessible from the
backstage>plugins menu, or by embedding the <<plugins>> macro into any tiddler content.
Martin
You can also see the total time taken to load the plugins:
1) go to the tweak dropdown in backstage
2) click the "Show unknown options" checkbox
3) click the "chkDisplayInstrumentation" checkbox, it's about the 8th one down
this will let you see what proportion of the total load time is spent loading the plugins
Maximum File Size
Ken: This seems to be the constant question: How big can it get?
As far as I am aware there is no limit to how big of a file you can download and open. I pumped up a TW to around 3 megs just to see what it could do and didn't have any problems. It took a while to get the file, but I got it.
If you are running lots of plugins then Firefox will give you the "A script is making this page run slow. Do you want to continue?" message, but it will load.
Daniel
The problems reported by people with large TiddlyWikis are usually performance based, and it seems that the solution (once you've disabled animations..) is to remove macros that loop through every tiddler, like the tabs in the sidebar. So it's not so much the size
that's the problem in a direct sense, but the fact that many TW macros assume that looping through every tiddler isn't very slow.
Markus: Mine is online and loading of about 1.7 MB might be quite annoying for people with low bandwidth. I'm desperately seeking for a solution !
Book Comparison
Alice in Wonderland, a book of approximately 200 pages, translates to a mere 160 kB in plain-text format.
See Also
In TiddlyWikis with a large amount of tiddlers, the listings in SideBarTabs (e.g. Timeline) might require a long time to be generated, thus inhibiting the overall performance.
cf. Tips for speeding up performance on large TiddlyWikis
Quote:Dave
I recommend disabling animations even on medium-sized tiddlywikis. Animations slow it down. Also, if your file gets big you will want to open the shadowed tiddler tab rather than the tab listing all tidders A-Z or by date. Or hide the tabbed menus altogether if you don't need them showing. With each new tiddler, the image of the two tabbed lists I mentioned (all and by date) has to be refreshed and can take a while. You can remove the tabbed lists from the page layout by removing their code from PageTemplate. Nevertheless, I have a couple TiddlyWikis with 1,000s of tiddlers that each have form fields, and I am not noting any other performance
issues yet.
Plugin Load Times
Eric
The plugin 'load timer' information is available in the shadow tiddler, PluginManager, which is also accessible from the
backstage>plugins menu, or by embedding the <<plugins>> macro into any tiddler content.
Martin
You can also see the total time taken to load the plugins:
1) go to the tweak dropdown in backstage
2) click the "Show unknown options" checkbox
3) click the "chkDisplayInstrumentation" checkbox, it's about the 8th one down
this will let you see what proportion of the total load time is spent loading the plugins
Maximum File Size
Ken: This seems to be the constant question: How big can it get?
As far as I am aware there is no limit to how big of a file you can download and open. I pumped up a TW to around 3 megs just to see what it could do and didn't have any problems. It took a while to get the file, but I got it.
If you are running lots of plugins then Firefox will give you the "A script is making this page run slow. Do you want to continue?" message, but it will load.
Daniel
The problems reported by people with large TiddlyWikis are usually performance based, and it seems that the solution (once you've disabled animations..) is to remove macros that loop through every tiddler, like the tabs in the sidebar. So it's not so much the size
that's the problem in a direct sense, but the fact that many TW macros assume that looping through every tiddler isn't very slow.
Markus: Mine is online and loading of about 1.7 MB might be quite annoying for people with low bandwidth. I'm desperately seeking for a solution !
Book Comparison
Alice in Wonderland, a book of approximately 200 pages, translates to a mere 160 kB in plain-text format.
See Also