Performance — Chandler Desktop 1.0.3 RC1, Mac OS X 10.5.6, around 48,000 records

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2005 Mac Mini with 1 GB RAM

• 1.42 GHz G4 PowerPC
• 4,200 RPM ST9808210A with 42% of 74.41 GB free

Chandler profile (repository, backup.chex, logs etc.) on the startup volume — excellent quit times

• first launch: 3'35" — slow
• second launch: 0'27" — acceptable
• quit, including export: 5'10" — slow

…

• first quit, without export: 0'34" — acceptable
• launch: 1'22" — acceptable
• second quit, without export: 0'03" — excellent

iDefrag view of startup volume layout

iDefrag view of startup volume statistics

iDefrag view of fragmented Chandler files

• notes

2006 MacBook^? Pro with 2 GB RAM, minimal/fragmented free space on internal hard disk

• 2.16 GHz Intel Core Duo
• 7,200 RPM ST910021AS with between 1.6% and 3.8% of 92.84 GB free

Chandler profile on hard disk of startup volume in MacBook Pro — terribly slow

• import from backup.chex: 24'47" — very slow
  • 16:42:00 started
  • 16:42:06 10% - Opening data
  • 16:42:27 20%
  • ........ 35% - Counting records
  • 16:42 ........ Imported … records
  • 17:23 .. 35% - Imported 48652 records
  • .............. Saving
  • 17:24:53 ...
  • 17:25:30 master password entered
  • ........ 45% - Building application view
  • 17:26 .. File menu clicked
  • 17:26:47 Dashboard appears
• subsequent launches: 3'30" or more — very slow
• quit, including export: 11' or more — very slow
• quit excluding export: very slow.

Chandler profile on USB 2.0 Hi-Speed flash drive — excellent second and subsequent launch times

82% of 1.85 GB free on the flash drive

Thursday 2002-02-19

~ 3.6 GB free on startup volume of MacBook Pro

• first launch: 1'12"
• first quit: 2'30"
• second launch: 0'48"
• second quit: 4'16"
• third launch: 0'48"

iDefrag view of USB flash drive volume layout

iDefrag view of USB flash drive volume statistics

iDefrag view of fragmented Chandler files on USB flash drive

• notes, including opensnoop

Sunday 2009-02-22

~1.5 GB free on startup volume of MacBook Pro

• Time Machine running
• first launch: 1'40"
• first quit: 3'50"
• second launch: 0'45"
• second quit: 3'45"

Time Machine stopped

• third launch: 0'30"
• third quit: 2'44"
• fourth launch: 0'10" — excellent
• fourth quit: 2'15"
• fifth launch: 0'06" — excellent
• fifth quit: 2'11"

iDefrag view of USB flash drive volume layout

iDefrag view of USB flash drive volume statistics

iDefrag view of fragmented Chandler files on USB flash drive

flash volume optimised

• sixth launch: 0'41"
• sync
• sixth quit: 3'49"
• seventh launch: 0'27"
• seventh quit: 2'15"
• eighth launch: 0'09" — excellent
• eighth quit: 2'30"

iDefrag view of startup volume layout

iDefrag view of startup volume layout

iDefrag view of startup volume statistics

iDefrag view of fragmented files (excluding Chandler profile)

• notes

2007 iMac with 3 GB RAM

• MacBook Pro in target disk mode
• FireWire 400 connection
• starting from the volume within peripheral MacBook Pro

Chandler profile on hard disk of startup volume in MacBook Pro — excellent second and subsequent launch times

• first launch: 2'00"
• first quit: 3'30"
• second launch: 0'12" — excellent
• third launch: 0'09" — excellent
• third quit: 1'15"
• fourth quit: 1'10"

-- GrahamPerrin - 22 Feb 2009