Speeding Up Program Load Time?

I am having issues with my company Mac dragging. It takes nearly 20 seconds for any first time (that day) launch of a program. Even after the first time launch, it is still 5-10 seconds for every launch after that (assuming it was actually quit, not left running).
I have run a permissions repair and disk repair from both the Disk Utility and a 3rd party utility. The main hard drive has 750GB and is using 33GB, so I haven't maxed out the hard drive. I keep as little running as possible so I am (hopefully) not maxing out the RAM.
Is there a hard drive performance test, system performance test, or maybe some other areas I could look to for help? In my experience, generally when everything shows up as clean on the software end...it points to hardware.
Would appreciate any and all advice!
-Verlorenen

Hey, just curious have you looked at your process list to see if there are any really bad memory hogs?
I have a Mac Pro with 8GB of RAM and its always heavily loaded.
I'm running Snow Leopard with 8 Spaces configured and all of them are full of windows (My Mac Pro is my development and R&D machine). Running VMWare Fusion, Rapidweaver, an image editor, and some other piggy applications. Under Fusion I'm running NetBSD and Dragonfly operating systems with their own jobs running.
I can start up a new instance of iTunes in about 5 seconds.
If you run Activity Monitor, check out disk activity and memory usage when you start applications. See if the system is perhaps busy with something like backups, secure erase (both of those slow OSX a good bit), or even a runaway process like SystemUIServer.
I have a Windows machine that is a good bit more powerful than this Mac... but it can't handle even a quarter of the load my Mac does. Gotta love UNIX...

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How can I speed up the load time?

My website is completed and I am happy with everything.
Everything except the time it takes to load. All the images have
been optimized. What can I do to speed up the load time?
http://www.liquidfirefishing.com

On Tue, 6 Jan 2009 01:29:41 +0000 (UTC), "Team Liquid Fire"
<[email protected]> wrote:
>My website is completed and I am happy with everything.
Everything except the
>time it takes to load. All the images have been
optimized. What can I do to
>speed up the load time?
>
http://www.liquidfirefishing.com
Typically, your budget is around 50k for the first page,
total including
all external files. When you add up all the external files
you have used,
like images, Flash, external JavaScript, etc., you have 98
separate HTTP
requests in that page. Just looking at the headers, you have
about 80k in
requests and responses, not even counting the actual files.
Browsers are limited to just a few simultaneous streams, so
most of your
files wind up having to wait until the prior files download.
Included among your 98 requests, you have these six files
that each
individually exceed that total budget:
headerLinked.swf 2,621,578 bytes
2007_fishing_video_web.flv 95,989,898 bytes
2008_aoy_graphic.png 65,582 bytes
jensen_beach.png 59,105 bytes
liquid_fire_logo_new.png 142,277 bytes
DanSchaad.png 379,111 bytes
Your entire total is 99,816,652 bytes. I've put a complete
breakdown here:
http://testing.apptools.com/newsgroup/liquidfire.php
Files are requested from the server in the order they are
encountered in
the source code. They are displayed in the linked page in the
order in
which they are requested. You can see that some of the huge
files are
requested fairly early in the sequence. That means that those
files and
their extended download times are occupying streams and
preventing other
files from being downloaded more quickly.
My suggestion would be to really trim down the content on the
page. Break
it up into several pages. Dump the huge Flash movie at the
top of the
page. Optimize the four .png's above.
Gary

Speeding Up The Loading Time of Plug-Ins.....

Hi.
I have Scarbee Vintage Keyboard Collection and it takes about 1/2 mins to load the engine, then 2/3 mins to load a patch. It doesnt do this with other plugins and my computer is certainly not slow.
Has anyone got any ideas of what this could be?
Thanks, Ben

I think you answered his question "What Format". It wasn't clear from your first post that you used the Halion player.
The Scarbee keyboards used to be available as EXS instruments. I know, because I have his Rhodes and his Wurlitzer in that format. The big version of each, can easily take upwards of a 20 seconds or so to load. If the vintage collection is 3 or 4 keyboards of that size, it's not a far stretch to see why.
I have heard reports of the Halion player not being all that great on a Mac, let alone Logic. Perhaps that has something to do with it's sluggishness as well.

Advice needed on speeding up load times.

I need some practical advice on ways in which I can speed up the load time on one particular page of my website. This page: http://www.thinksmartresumes.com.au/%2499-designs.html
I know there are hundreds of localised factors including Internet connection but lots of people have now commented that this page take over 30 seconds to load. I know it's a big page with lots of png's and links. What can I do to speed things up???
Any advice welcome apart from splitting the page up (that's not an option). I can't read code btw.
Cheers all.

Hi
I tried to check the page which loads slow and can see the reason, while opening the page , browser downloads 10.1 mb of data for that single page out of which 9.7 mb is only for images which you have used on page.
The images as I have checked are png format and defines for states.
The only option you can use is optimize the images you have used, for example if you have used images with opacity or states effect, try to create the image outside of Muse with any editor like Photoshop and then use that image which should lower down the size in comparison to defined states.
Resize the images , use web fonts etc , these things you can check which would help in loading the page faster.
Thanks,
Sanjit

Loading time is extremely long - Any way to create a database?

I'm cutting a feature using Premiere CC. There are over 6,000 files in the project including video (ProRes Proxy) and audio files (wavs). The project currently takes over ten minutes to load, then once loaded my system is extremely slow. I am running a 2.2 i7, Radeon HD 6750M 1024mb, w/ 8 gigs of ram on a macbook pro. Is there anyway to create a database of some sort so the file loading time doesn't take so long? Or is there anything I can do to speed up the loading time in general?
Thank you.

If I may be so bold as to offer workflow advice? When working with an underpowered computer, there are ways to work around the RAM issues and the slow processor.
Break up the project into various sections. Work on the intro and the credits in one project, work on indoor scenes in another, outdoor in another, or some other manner that allows you to use multiple projects. When you are done with a section, or a scene, or whatever, you can nest the main sequence and import that new sequence into the "main" project where you can then assemble all of the parts.
If you really need to go back and make adjustments, just reopen the original project for that sequence and do what you need to do. Then delete the sequence in the "main" project and import it again. Or, instead of doing that, just export each project's main sequence and combine the clips into one new project. You would not use this method for the final export, but it will save you the hassle of importing sequences over and over if you are changing things a lot. When it all looks good, then import all of the projects into one project and combine the sequences into your movie.
Keep in mind that a Premiere Pro project is just an XML file and all of the text has to be read into the program, basically one line at a time. So keep the number of lines to a minimum. Even in CC, it is still XML, just zipped up.

Load time too darn slow!

I just included an html header in my template. All of my images (for a menu) are in a folder, properly referenced in HTML. I made the HTML document specifically for this pdf file. The header loads fine when pulling up the initial JSP page but once I run the rdf template, the data shows up but the header stops @ 38% and none of the header images load. All of the images have been optimized for the web. Is there anything else I can do? I noticed that my pdf versions (no html header) take forever to load as well. What can I do to speed up the load time??

Sorry, I didn't mean PDF file, I meant rdf.

Page load time differences between IE and Firefox

Hello all,
I have a problem with page loading time in IE 8. My page contains tabular form, classic report and some other items. I use some javascript code(placed in HTLM Header section) and also dynamic actions. When I try to display the page in IE I have to wait for 40 seconds (100 rows in tabular form). I realized that the performance is dependent on the number of displayed rows in the tabular form. But decrease the number of visible rows, using pagination, is not an option, because all needed rows should be visible for the users. During the tests I have tried to remove all the JS code and disable all the dynamic action, but the loading time was more or less the same.
When I try to run the same page in FireFox then it is displayed in 4 seconds!
I have already try to search some tips or advices how to speed up the page loading, but only what I have found out is, that every web browser is different. The javascript is handled differently, page rendering is done differently and so on.
Maybe there is something what I have missed, and you experts can help me. Is there anything general what I should check or change to speed up the loading time in IE?
Thanks in advance!
Jiri
APEX v. 4.2.1.00.08
IE 8.0.7600.16358
FF 19.0.2

Thanks Denes for your reply.
I use HttpWatch tool to measure the loading times. Reports are mostly the same for IE and FF. I can see from the report, there is three times shown error 404 Not Found for the items below.
http://......./images/sRegion-Body.png
http://......./images/sRegion-Bottom.png
http://......./images/sReportBG-Standard.png
The last action which caused 404 error started 2 seconds after the page was asked to refresh. The next action http://......../i/libraries/jquery-ui/1.8.22/ui/i18n/oracle/jquery.ui.datepicker-cs.js started after 38 seconds (hanging in the same place for 36 seconds). Does it mean that the problem is caused by http://......./images/sReportBG-Standard.png action which returns 404 error?
How can I add the missing images?
-Jiri

Loading times effect movie performance

How can I speed up the loading time of my website for viewers so my
buttons work properly ?
If you click on the 2nd and 3rd instance of a button on my opening page too quickly,
which navigate to later parts of the movie, the buttons don't work properly and you
get a message "error #2004 incomplete load". If you wait 10 or 15 seconds
(depending on the system) the buttons work properly.
Will compressing my movie when publishing the .swf speed up loading time for the
web viewer or just degrade my file ?
Thanks to anyone who might have some input on this
particular question.
Fred... (fredhughesdesign.com)

The compress setting in the publish settings is safe to use -- if that is the one you are asking about. It just compresses the size of the swf file with a lossless compression. So that is one thing you can do.
Another is that you could add a preloader -- some code that doesn't let the site actually start working until the whole thing is loaded. Usually a preloader shows some interesting animation to indicate to the user how long they will have to wait. If you are certain that you content downloads in about 10 or 15 seconds that is probably pretty good.
If the file gets much bigger than that you might want to look into putting some of the assets into external files and doing dynamic loading.
To do a short preloader add a frame at the beginning of your timeline and add this code"
stop();
this.onEnterFrame=function(){
var bl:Number=this.getBytesLoaded();
var bt:Number=this.getBytesTotal();
var percent:Number=100*bl/bt
if(bl==bt && bl>40){
delete this.onEnterFrame;
this.gotoAndPLay(2);
You could add some little animated movieclip to that frame which would keep running and provide some visual "eyecandy" while the user waits. But you will want to keep that artwork simple. All the content of frame 1 must download before anything can start running. That will just make it stay on. If you have a lot of components in the library or many other things set to export for actionscript you might also have a long delay.
Or you might want to do some kind of code to make the animation. Often that will have a smaller footprint.

Loading times web view / html5 animations / edge hype

Hi,
I have been working with iPad publishing software quite a while now and have experienced Woodwing as well as DPS. I have come across an issue with DPS which I can't find a solution for. When creating web view content, I mean either normal websites or Html5 animations the loading times with DPS are to long and there is the issue of the spinning loading.gif.
Is there some way to speed up the loading time for everything which is loaded within the web view window? How would I for example speed up the time to load animations from Edge or from Hype?
From my point of view this is a crucial thing to be solved.
Also I know from working with Woodwing that they solved that issue and things regarding the loading time of web content/animations are running a lot smoother. ( and no I can't just use Woodwing I need to solve this with DPS )
Solutions welcome and info on when stuff like this will be solved as well.
Thank you,
Alex

Neil, can you even say how long it takes? ... We are currently working on a magazine app for an international car manufacturers and hope that we can publish it without loading time.
Thanks for your support!
Mike

How to improve jsp load time?

Hi everyone --
Got a question for all of you.
I have a form in a JSP, which does a (Oracle 9i) db lookup on 13 fields and populates the drop-down boxes. The load time for the JSP is slooooww.
These are my options for speeding up the load time (I think):
1. When the web/app server starts the application, have it do all the db lookups and store the resultsets...somewhere. Maybe have some dblistener thread that periodically checks for updates to the db. Then, when someone actually requests the JSP, all the JSP has to do is read the pre-populated drop-down boxes and load.
2. Wait until someone requests the JSP and store all the resultsets as cookies for the session. The resultsets will be good for the home JSP and its sister. This doesn't really solve the problem, since the initial load will still be slow.
3. Combine all the lookup statements into one huge statement, and store the results somewhere. This method queries the db only once, and the drop-down boxes can be populated from one query (instead of 13 separate connections and queries).
All of these ideas seem mediocre to me, and they don't address the fact that the results of the queries change contantly. What I need is a
way to make the JSP load quickly and with the most current information.
Does anyone have any ideas? Which of my suggestions is rather boneheaded?
Thanks for any advice,
-Kwj

It's still not perfect, but it's better at least.
I'm querying 4 different tables overall, and I have a Db class that the jsp instantiates.
from home.jsp:
Db d = new Db();
ResultSet [] all = d.getAll();
<body>
%>
<tr><td align=right>Correspondence ID: </td><td><select>
<option label=""></option>
<%
    rs = all [1];
    while(rs.next()){
%>
        <option><%=rs.getString("sak_correspondence")%></option>
<%
%>
</select></td>
</body>
[\code]
from Db.java:public ResultSet [] getAll() throws SQLException
ResultSet [] all = new ResultSet [4];
all [0] = con.prepareStatement
("select nam_category from doco.corr_category " +
"order by nam_category asc").executeQuery();
all [1] = con.prepareStatement
("select sak_correspondence, dte_received, dte_response_due, " +
"dte_sent, file_path, id_outref, subject " +
"from doco.correspondence").executeQuery();
all [2] = con.prepareStatement
("select nam from doco.corr_type order by nam asc").executeQuery();
all [3] = con.prepareStatement
("select nam_subcategory from doco.corr_subcategory " +
"order by nam_subcategory asc").executeQuery();
return all;
}//getAll()

Can this html code be changed to speed up the image load time?

I found some html that creates a auto running slide show. I've got three images (small image sizes) but it is slow to start up when the page is first opened. http://web.me.com/phelpssculpture/Site/test.html this is the escaped code:
<center><img id='imageholder' src='' ></img></center>
<script type='text/javascript'>
images = new Array();
images.push('http://web.me.com/phelpssculpture/Docs/typewriterprpage.jpg');
images.push('http://web.me.com/phelpssculpture/Docs/royalprpage.jpg');
images.push('http://web.me.com/phelpssculpture/Docs/Lovetest.jpg');
var image_index = 0;
function rotateImage() {
if (image_index == images.length - 1) { image_index = 0 } else { image_index++ }
document.getElementById('imageholder').src = images[image_index];
setInterval('rotateImage()', 5000);
</script>
I have a page: http://web.me.com/phelpssculpture/Site/Resume.html
that has a rollover image (from OldToad) that has two images about the same file size and located in the same folder on my iDisk as the other slide show images but it seems to load instantly.
this is the escaped code:
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">

</script>
<a href="http://web.mac.com/phelpssculpture/Site/royal.html" onmouseover="image1.src=loadImage1.src;" onmouseout="image1.src=staticImage1.src;">
<img name="image1" src="http://web.me.com/phelpssculpture/Docs/royalprpage.jpg" border=0></a>
Does anyone know if it's possible to improve the html of the slideshow snippet to speed up the initial load time?
Thanks, David

Ethmoid:
There are seven different pages: http://web.me.com/phelpssculpture/Site/movieroyal_davidphelps.html
Each link is directed to a different page.
I created the basic layout on one page and then duplicated the page six times.
the links are in one text box ( that's why they're lined up well ) and each individual word is activated as a link. I changed the background color of the forward tab to match the color of the main shape and used the send forward or send backward command to get the tabs to look right on each page.
The only problem with the words being in a single text box is that explorer doesn't render the spacing correctly and they fall off their respective tabs. When I get time I will put each word in it's own text box ( it's not that hard to align them ) so it will render properly in explorer.
Sincerely, David Phelps

How can I speed up loading time on Android?

Hello!
I'm creating an AIR app for Android and I've run into an issue with the loading time: when the user first clicks on the icon, there's 10 seconds of black screen before the first screen of my app appears. At least this happens on older Android devices. The delay is only a second or two on newer devices. I know this question has been asked before:
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/764981
http://forums.adobe.com/message/4035208#4035208
http://zehfernando.com/2011/a-mobile-air-application-post-mortem/
But I haven't been able to find an answer that's worked for me. I've tried a a preloader and I've found that even loading the tiniest app takes around 10 seconds. This is how long it took me to load an app that was just a single frame with a simple rectangle image in it. From what I've read, the issue is that the Android device is loading the AIR runtime, and this takes time - no matter how small the actual app is. I should add that I'm using captive runtime.
I'm OK with the performance on new Android devices but, as far as I can tell, Android is so fragmented that many people are still running older devices and OS versions. So, I'd like to provide a good user experience on older devices. I think a ten second wait is just too long and will kill the entire experience for many people.
Is there any update on this? Does anyone have a solution?
If I can't improve the loading time, I think I'll try to only make the app available for newer devices.
I've heard people taking about creating 'native wrapper' and somehow embedding their swf file in native code that has a loading screen. Has anyone got something like this work? I'm currently reading up on Android splash screens in native code. They seem relatively simple to create. I hope I can somehow embed my swf in a native program with a splash screen. Any help is appreciated!
Thanks!
Damian

Hi Anton,
Yes, I tried launching an empty project with just one frame and a simple rectange image embedded in it. This also took 10 seconds to load. Yes, I'm using AIR 4.0 as well. As far as I can tell, the issue is AIR itself is taking time to load onto the device - and this is independent of what I put in my program. I think I have three options:
1. learn to live with the delay
2. decide it's too long and not support older Android devices with my app
3. figure out if I can embed my swf in a "native wrapper" as suggested in one of my original three links.
I'm hoping to do 3, but I don't know if it's possible.
Damian

Speeding load time of WEB Forms50

I have created a new Java archive as a subset of class files
provided in the Oracle archive 'f50web.jar' in an attempt to
speed up the launch time of an application.
The new Java archive contains just 160 (the only class files my
Forms need) of the 600 class files originally in the archive and
does indeed speed up launch time substantially - down from an
average of 45 seconds to 25 on a Pentium 160 and from 20 seconds
to under 5 on our dual-processor NT server.
However, the displayed Forms now all carry a yellow banner
across the bottom labelled 'warning - applet running' (to that
effect). How do I get rid of the banner?
P.S. Hints for reducing the archive size:
Full instructions are in the Oracle document 'Tuning
Developer/2000 Application performance on the WEB'. Note that
the file names in the archive are case sensitive. When you have
extracted the list of class files to include then the Unix
command 'cpio' makes an execellent tool to copy a directory
structure and a subset of the files it contains. 'pkzip' would
do the job just as well.
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Well I just timed it:
56 seconds from hitting the reply button until an edit postion..
I append I screenshot I made after 10 seconds:
see attachment
This stays the same while the status bar of Firefox 2.0 says: Connecting with forums.ni.com and waitn for forums.ni.com
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Same image, loaded multiple times: speeding up load time?

I wrote this message before thinking about embedding the
image... I was thinking that putting a relative path automatically
embedded the image, but in retrospect I was wrong, and that will
probably solve my problem. I'll just leave the question here anyway
though:
I'm using image components in my application loaded from a
relative path. The problem is, I have many copies (30+) of the same
image, essentially 30+ identical image components which need to be
loaded/unloaded at different intervals, and they are not loading
fast enough for me. Would it be more effective to duplicate an
existing "master" Image to improve load time instead of explicitly
setting "image.source=" each time? Is there any better solution for
improving image load speed?
Best of all would be some way to pre-cache or buffer images,
so that I can be guaranteed that they will load as quickly as
possible when I bind them to an Image component.
Cheers!

JPGS are much better for photos. PNGs are good when you need transparency.
Instead of Image Swapping, why don't you use a photo gallery?
FancyBox is nice.. It supports real text captions/descriptions, too.
http://fancybox.net/
Nancy O.
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Web | Graphics | Print | Media Specialists
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Broadband + Slow Safari Load Time speed tweek

Give this a go to see if it improves your slow loading Safari.
* QUIT Safari before typing these commands into terminal
To add this speedup behaviour:
defaults write com.apple.Safari WebKitInitialTimedLayoutDelay 0.001
To remove this speedup behaviour:
defaults write com.apple.Safari WebKitInitialTimedLayoutDelay 1.0
Launch Safari again and give it a go. If not helpful, quit and enter the last line given above to remove the behaviour.

If this is a wizard generated form, was there any modification made ?. The jbInit
code by default sets up the InfoProducer objects. The ApplicationModule is then
created and queries executed when the publisSession method is called on the SessionInfo
object. This publishSession by default happens after the jbInit code. I would imagine
the publishSession method to take more time in comparision to jbInit code which
typically instantiates the UI elements and creates your form. Is there any other
setup that happens in jbinit ?.
If I remove the jbInit call from the program, the load time goes down to 5 secs
(which would probably be acceptable), but then I lose the navigation. Could you provide more info., on what you mean by navigation ?. Is is the setup of
the navigation bar and menu you are referring to ?.
HTH,
Sathish

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