Slowness in SkyMap

[Wolfgang Reissenberger]

I’ve observed a similar problem. When I’ve zoomed in very heavy (FOV 1-2 deg), KStars becomes very slow and EKOS hangs.

> Am 19.03.2025 um 21:37 schrieb Hy Murveit <murveit at gmail.com>:
> 
> Responding to (and moving) Akarsh's note below.
> 
> I don't know what's going on, but I can second that. 
> Every now and then I get this incredible slowness drawing the terrain overlay. 
> Right now, kstars is unusable with terrain enabled on my dev Linux VM.
> When I turn terrain off (which takes a while because of the extreme slowness) all is ok.
> It seems to working ok natively on my Mac.
> I haven't changed anything in the terrain code in years.
> Seems likely to be related to the issue you're reporting.
> 
> Anyone else see this?
> Hy
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> From: Akarsh Simha <akarshsimha at gmail.com <mailto:akarshsimha at gmail.com>>
> Date: Sun, Mar 16, 2025 at 11:30 PM
> Subject: Re: Akshay--a New Volunteer
> To: Jasem Mutlaq <mutlaqja at ikarustech.com <mailto:mutlaqja at ikarustech.com>>
> Cc: KStars Development Mailing List <kstars-devel at kde.org <mailto:kstars-devel at kde.org>>, Akshay Subramaniam <akshaysubr at gmail.com <mailto:akshaysubr at gmail.com>>
> 
> 
> Hi Akshay
> 
> Nice to see you join team KStars! Akshay and I went to college together way back in 2008 or so, and we used to be in the astronomy club together.
> 
> On a side note HiPS overlay is crawling on my friend’s 2019 MacBook Air and after some time KStars hangs. Makes it unusable. Any idea what’s going on?
> 
> Regards
> Akarsh
> 

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