[Framers] Processing time

[Harding, Dan]

It's definitely pod-based. With 0 pods displayed, I can move quickly through text using the keyboard and the CPU 1 load won't rise above 5%. However, as I display more pods on the screen, the load ramps higher, with Character Designer and especially Paragraph Designer being the worst offenders. Having just Paragraph Designer displayed and quickly moving through text will spike to 90%+ CPU 1 utilization. With both paragraph and Character designer, it maxes at 100% utilization almost immediately. Any more than those 2 open and there starts being noticeable lag in cursor movement.

Since Frame apparently wasn't coded to utilize multiple CPU cores, modern CPUs with multiple cores/threads are of minimal benefit. What Frame wants is one ginormously powerful CPU core rather than distributed CPU power. Other Adobe apps like Photoshop were developed to utilize multiple CPU cores as well as the GPU horsepower... which is what Frame needs.

Ugh.

-----Original Message-----
From: Framers <framers-bounces+dharding=illinois.edu at lists.frameusers.com> On Behalf Of Harding, Dan
Sent: Wednesday, April 7, 2021 11:25 AM
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Subject: Re: [Framers] Processing time

Thank you for running the same test. I wonder why it ramps my CPU usage up so high compared to yours. Would the number of Character formats or Paragraph formats in the file or installed font families on the system impact this?

I'll try stripping out extraneous formats and see if that does anything.

-Dan
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From: Framers <framers-bounces+dharding=illinois.edu at lists.frameusers.com> On Behalf Of Lin Sims
Sent: Wednesday, April 7, 2021 11:09 AM
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Subject: Re: [Framers] Processing time

I just checked on my system. Having the paragraph catalog open while moving the cursor through my document using the keyboard does increase usage, but only to about 3%. I'm actually not surprised by that, since the cursor is moving through the paragraph tags and the catalog reflects whatever tag is applied at the point the cursor is in. Same thing with the paragraph designer. This is the expected behavior.

I'm using FM 2020, which is the first FM version available in only 64-bit.
Oddly, it too is running the Legacy32.exe, but doing so under Background Processes. I have no idea what that's for.

My system is a Dell Latitude 5510 with an i7-10610 processor and 32Gb of RAM.

On Wed, Apr 7, 2021 at 10:11 AM Harding, Dan <dharding at illinois.edu> wrote:

> Follow-up: Just to be sure, I uninstalled all previous and coexisting 
> versions of FrameMaker, and completely reinstalled FM 2019 64-bit.
> Same behavior.
>
> I find it interesting that under the Apps section in task manager, if 
> you expand FrameMaker, it's running something called "Legacy32.exe (32 bit)"
> which confirms my suspicion that 64-bit Frame really isn't... at least 
> not entirely.
>
> V15.0.8.979 which is a newer update than what I originally listed 
> below, but no change in performance.
>
> Also, when I have zero pods open and rapidly use the keyboard to move 
> up and down through lines of text, there is no spike in CPU usage, but 
> if I open even one pod such as character designer or paragraph 
> designer and do the same, it instantly spikes CPU core 1 to 100% and 
> bogs down until I stop moving the curser. It is literally polling and 
> updating all open pods on every single keystroke.
>
> -Dan
>
>

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Lin Sims
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