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Desktop version of Cockpit (electron) is taking a long time to boot #1608

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rafaellehmkuhl opened this issue Jan 23, 2025 · 1 comment · Fixed by #1636
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Desktop version of Cockpit (electron) is taking a long time to boot #1608

rafaellehmkuhl opened this issue Jan 23, 2025 · 1 comment · Fixed by #1636
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It is taking almost a minute to boot for some people (confirmed by me and Tony).
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Turns out this is being caused when of the existence of big video files in the video folder. They are being loaded on memory during boot and severely affecting both memory and cpu usage.

Below are some plot of memory usage (top) and application fps (bottom), with and without big video files in the folder (7 videos of about 500MB each):

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Fix slowness problem on the Electron version rafaellehmkuhl/cockpit-public
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