UI Freeze with Network Index

[Vorlon]

Hello!

Lately I've noticed with the last few alpha versions (1.5.0.1332a for sure, havent tried 1333 very long yet) that I have more frequent UI freezes (white screen or just non responsive) while I believe it is communicating with my local LAN network index computer.

Its a gig connection but I think its happened a few times under these conditions:

• Rebooting the network index machine

• Copying a large amount of data to a share on the mother machine

It is a fairly large index since the remote index also indexes my entire NAS drive.

I have increased the maximum journal size to 32768 kb as recommended, and have oodles of ram and fast m.2 drives to accommodate it.

I've also seen a perhaps unrelated issue a few times where Everything gets stuck in a loop reading the remote index. When finished, it starts over again and again. I think I had to restart the service or maybe reboot the machine the last time it happened.

I wonder if part of the network index processing is not being done in a thread other than the UI thread?

Thanks!

[void]

Thank you for the issue report Vorlon,

There could be a network connection issue.
The Everything UI will hang if you perform an action on an offline result.

I've also seen a perhaps unrelated issue a few times where Everything gets stuck in a loop reading the remote index. When finished, it starts over again and again. I think I had to restart the service or maybe reboot the machine the last time it happened.

This can happen if the connection is broken during indexing.
I'll look into adding some retry delays here.

I wonder if part of the network index processing is not being done in a thread other than the UI thread?

Could be.
I haven't been able to produce the issue my end.
I would have to see a mini crash dump to know for sure.

Could you please send a mini crash dump:

• Download Process Explorer from Microsoft:
  https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/process-explorer
• In Process Explorer, select Everything.exe (If there is two, select the one using the most memory)
• Wait for Everything to hang or white screen.
• In Process Explorer, right click Everything.exe and under Create Dump, select Create Mini Dump.
• Choose a filename and click Save.
• Please send this file to support@voidtools.com

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[Vorlon]

Thanks, I'll try to catch it again.

Another clue - this morning when my connection to the other machine was known to be acting up (I rebooted the switch), I did a search that included both LOCAL and remote content in the results. The remote content was grayed out which I understand. But it prevented ALL the preview icons from resolving until the connection came back. I dont remember if I even tried selecting anything when it was in this state, but I think it would be best if a communication problem happens, it should not prevent you from working with local drive content.

[void]

But it prevented ALL the preview icons from resolving until the connection came back

Everything will keep trying to show icons/thumbnails/previews for offline files for up to one minute.
Everything should eventually timeout after one minute.

[Vorlon]

It was affecting local icons as well as for offline