Slowness in SkyMap

Hy Murveit murveit at gmail.com
Wed Mar 19 21:26:47 GMT 2025


For me it's not limited to heavy FOV, but rather always.


On Wed, Mar 19, 2025 at 1:41 PM Wolfgang Reissenberger <
sterne-jaeger at openfuture.de> wrote:

> 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>
> Date: Sun, Mar 16, 2025 at 11:30 PM
> Subject: Re: Akshay--a New Volunteer
> To: Jasem Mutlaq <mutlaqja at ikarustech.com>
> Cc: KStars Development Mailing List <kstars-devel at kde.org>, Akshay
> Subramaniam <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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