Weeble
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| posted on 5/25/2006 at 06:20 AM |
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Slow to load
I have a menu system comprising about 300 items arranged in three levels. It is VERY slow to load (about 15-20 seconds) but once loaded it works
fine. Is this normal for an array of this size?
Weeble....
PS menu is loaded via a PHP include function.
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tigra
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| posted on 5/25/2006 at 11:29 AM |
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there are three stages of this process and you'll have to investigate which one causes the most delay:
1. you php scripting (try the menu on static HTML page with static .JS configuration to see if there is any difference)
2. download time of the files (try the menu on blank HTML page with small items hierarchy ...)
3. initialization time (small items hierarchy will make difference)
knowing where the bottle neck is you can start searching for the solution
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Weeble
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| posted on 5/26/2006 at 03:06 AM |
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Thanks for the quick response.
I have tried calling the menu directly from an html page but still the same results -- also doesn't seem to make much difference if the menu js links
are placed inside or outside the <header> tags!
My tree has 5 top level items, each of which then has about 30 child-items each of which have 2 further child-items. In one area the tree goes to a
fourth level with about 5 items.
By experimentation I have found that the loading time is more or less directly related to the number of menu items I present... but everything is
located on the same server so there shouldn't be a problem with network access times. I'm puzzled!
I see a few people have had problems with slow loading in the past but no solid resolutions posted here. So has if any of the previous posters are
reading this, did you find a fix?
Thanks again.... Weeble
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Weeble
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| posted on 5/26/2006 at 04:42 AM |
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One step forward______________
I've just applied my menu_items.js to the Demo folders that are part of the download and they load in all the demos with no problem whatsoever.... so
that excludes that particular file from the trouble shooting.
Weeble
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tigra
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| posted on 5/26/2006 at 09:02 AM |
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if your tree_items structure works fast with the samples from the distribution package then it's not the initialization. The networks speed is high
so it's not the download time, this leaves us with your .php file. Comment out its fragment to find out what lags the page loading.
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Weeble
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| posted on 6/1/2006 at 03:34 AM |
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Been away for a couple days, and the break obviously did me good.
The current situation is that it seems the slow running problem is only apparent on machines that have a particular application (Dimensions) installed
on them... on all other machines it runs fine :(
Dimensions installs a Java Virtual Machine and I'm wondering if that might be the cause of the problem. Any ideas??
Weeble
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tigra
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| posted on 6/1/2006 at 09:18 AM |
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Tigra Tree Menu is JavaScript, not java. Maybe that Dimentions thing eats too much client's resources or somehow interacts with the browser's
scripting engine.
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