Slowness in SkyMap

[hans at lambermont.dyndns.org]

Hy Murveit wrote on 20250319:

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

For me slow/not responding as well. I'm imaging now (rare clear
skies here) and a mouse wheel action in the star view does not
respond at all (it should zoom) while the mouse wheel in ekos
over the tabs happily immediately switches tab views.

-- Hans

> 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