Wikipedia pages are slow to load
Summary
Ask Toolbar may cause performance problems with Internet Explorer and SuperMemo.
Question
Sheng Liu wrote:
Something at the bottom of Wikipedia pages makes elements take terribly long to load (SuperMemo 16). I expect this problem is already known, but I thought I'd report it anyway. It's a big time waster and frustrates me with SM as never before. I hope it's fixed soon.
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More information needed
- this problem could not be reproduced. Could you provide specific Wikipedia pages that cause this problem?
- imports and page loading have been optimized for speed in SuperMemo 16 and should be much faster than in earlier version (up to 200x acceleration in some bottleneck areas). This optimization was particularly scrupulous for Wikipedia processing. In that light, your problem seems pretty unusual. Please describe in as much detail as possible in what context the slowdown occurs
- is this a Tablet PC? What brand? SuperMemo 16 received very limited testing on Tablets. Possibly there will be an update later in 2014 if there are more tweaks needed for tablets
- do you use Ask Toolbar? Please try to disable it for a while and see how it affects performance. If you did not ask to have Ask Toolbar installed, and you have problems with uninstalling, see Error setting HTML text
- please try to move SuperMemo away from \Program Files folder, e.g. to c:\supermemo, or d:\supermemo and see if the problem occurs there as well
- if any of the suggestions here help, please do not forget to send back your feedback to formulate an answer for other users if they experience the same problem
Follow up
I've chosen a Wikipedia page arbitrarily: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Tasks which exemplifies the problem as most Wikipedia pages do.
To clarify, the problem is not in importing the Wikipedia pages to SM. I most often do so with the following selection:
Web page import mode: Local pages (elements hold whole web pages)
and this works perhaps slightly faster & smoother than in the previous version of SM.
The problem is during learning. Unless the bottom of the page is deleted or excluded from the given extraction, it takes a long time to work as normally e.g. text can't be selected, the page can't be edited, and the "Learn" button will work. This becomes very time-consuming.
Comments
- this page at Wikipedia seems to import correctly and fast in Windows 8.1 with Internet Explorer 11
- no slowdown could be observed when editing or extracting, with or without the bottom part
- the bottom part of the article includes lots of Table and Style material that is notoriously slow when parsed by Internet Explorer. However, this is slow in terms of milliseconds, not in human observable terms
- please try to run Internet Explorer without add-ons. Perhaps you run some extra processes that do some kind of indexing or scanning on the said HTML
- this problem is almost certainly SuperMemo independent. In other words, you need to look for culprits in apps, services and processes around Internet Explorer. Most of all, please disable Ask Toolbar
System Data
--------------------DETAILS-------------------- SuperMemo 16 Beta G (Build 16.0 Beta G, Nov 18, 2013) Time: Nov 27, 2013, Wed, 10:10 --------------------COLLECTION STATISTICS Collection C:\ProgramFiles\SuperMemo\systems\20131018 Date 11/27/2013 (Wed) First day 8/14/2013 Period 3mth 15 day(s) Total 15312 el. Items+Topics 5+15307 el. Memorized 11614 el. (90.9%) Memorized items 3 it. (0.0%) Memorized topics 11611 t. (100%) Memorized/Day 0.0283 it/day Outstanding 0+907+1 el. Subset 0+69+111 (BRAIN) Protection I=100 T=0.0327 Retention 100.00% Measured FI 0.00% Alarm - Burden 0.444+691.621 Burden +/- (0)+(-48.354) Workload 2 sec. Time 0 sec. (1h 58m 56s) Avg time 5.000 sec. Total time N/A Lapses 0.000 (0) Speed 279 it/ann/min Cost N/A Daily cost 1.309 min/it. Interval (I) 15 day(s) Interval (T) 1mth 16 day(s) Repetitions I=1.00 T=1.41 Rep count 0 Last Rep (I) 11/14/2013 Last Rep (T) 10/24/2013 Next Rep (I) 11/29/2013 Next Rep (T) 12/9/2013 Pending 1159 el. Dismissed 2539 el. Average FI 7.67% (10%) Completion 1/11/2126 A-Factor I=3.00 T=1.317 Text Registry 33173 entries Lexicon 223242 words FI Cases 0 --------------------WORKLOAD DATA 103. Nov 24, 2013: 0-14 104. Nov 25, 2013: 0-5 105. Nov 26, 2013: 0-16 106. Nov 27, 2013: 0-857 107. Nov 28, 2013: 1-729 108. Nov 29, 2013: 0-737 109. Nov 30, 2013: 2-631 110. Dec 1, 2013: 0-752 111. Dec 2, 2013: 0-637 112. Dec 3, 2013: 0-612 113. Dec 4, 2013: 0-506 114. Dec 5, 2013: 0-416 --------------------ELEMENT DATA Element: 15841: Orbital part of inferior frontal gyrus Type: Topic ComponentPtr: 1334959 MaxCompSize: 77 Reps: 0 Laps: 0 Interval: 0 AFactor: 1.255 UFactor: 0 Postpones: 0 FI: 0 ComPtr: 0 TempPtr: 11 RepHist: 23092 LastRep: 106 Today: 11/27/2013 LastDate: 11/27/2013 --------------------ELEMENT CONTENT Orbital part of inferior frontal gyrus From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia MBox([hide]This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page.) MBox(This article may be too technical for most readers to understand. Please help improve this article to make it understandable to non-experts, without removing the technical details. The talk page may contain suggestions. (August 2012)) MBox(This article needs attention from an expert on the subject. Please add a reason or a talk parameter to this template to explain the issue with the article. Consider associating this request with a WikiProject. (August 2012)) MBox(This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (August 2012)) Brain: Orbital part of inferior frontal gyrus Orbital part of inferior frontal gyrus (shown in red). Lateral surface of cerebral cortex Latin pars orbitalis gyri frontalis inferioris The Orbital part of inferior frontal gyrus (literally "the part that covers") is the part of the inferior frontal gyrus named opercularis because it covers part of the insula. The pars opercularis together with the pars triangularis form the Broca's area, a neuroanatomic region important in speech-language production. In the human, this region occupies the triangular part of the inferior frontal gyrus and, surrounding the anterior horizontal limb of the lateral sulcus, a portion of the orbital part of the inferior frontal gyrus. Bounded caudally by the anterior ascending limb of the lateral sulcus, it borders on the insula in the depth of the lateral sulcus. Cytoarchitectonically it is bounded caudally by the opercular area 44, rostrodorsally by the area 46 of Brodmann ( human ) and ventrally by the area 47 of Brodmann ( human ) ( Brodmann-1909 ).[1] Syudo Yamasaki et al. (1 September 2010) found that a ... --------------------SYSTEM DATA Windows 8 ver. 6.2 (Build 9200) Internet Explorer MSHTML Engine ver. 7.0 (0) IE Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.2; WOW64; Trident/6.0; .NET4.0E; .NET4.0C; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Tablet PC 2.0; InfoPath.2; AskTbORJ/5.15.23.36191; MDDSJS) User language: English (en-AU) System language: English (en-GB) Browser language: English (en-GB) Computer: HOMEPC Disk Free C: (Collections): 140.71 GB Total physical memory: 4.16 GB Free physical memory: 1.6 GB Page file: 7.46 GB Free page file: 4.24 GB Virtual memory: 2.15 GB Free virtual memory: 1.67 GB Extended virtual memory: 0 bytes SuperMemo heap memory: 7.43 MB Free heap memory: 3.62 MB Heap memory use: 51.29% Active Code Page: 1252 OEM Code Page: 850 Host: HomePC IP Address: 192.168.0.16 Server: HomePC Host HD: FAD5-746C SuperMemo owner: User of SuperMemo Collection author: User of SuperMemo Network installed