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sulcgroup / oxdna-viewer

oxView: Visualization and editing tool for DNA/RNA nanotechnology and oxDNA/oxRNA configuration analysis
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OxView (web-version) really slow? #117

Closed Boyu-Liu03 closed 1 year ago

Boyu-Liu03 commented 1 year ago

Hi I'm not sure what is going on but OxView seemed really slow for me today--like I have perhaps one frame per second when just dragging an origami design around, and tested on multiple computers. I checked hardware-acceleration to be on as well.

ErikPoppleton commented 1 year ago

OxView is entirely a client-side application, are you sure that you don't have anything eating a ton of memory on your computer? I made some changes to file read/write yesterday, but nothing to do with the renderer. I just checked Chrome, Firefox and Safari and am not having any rendering slowdown on my side. What kind of operating system/browser are you using?

ErikPoppleton commented 1 year ago

If you want to double check that nothing I did somehow affected rendering, you can serve an instance of oxView locally and try checking out commit 47010db376e76c7e46d0e00c623b3966ead8908d

Boyu-Liu03 commented 1 year ago

Hi Eric--I think you are right with the memory; I checked on activity monitor and 7.9G of my 8GB of memory was being used. I'm on a 2017 mac air with MacOS 12.6.7 (21G651) using the newest version Chrome. Is there a recommended memory requirement for running OxView with big design files and trajectory files then?

Boyu-Liu03 commented 1 year ago

Also the thing appeared really weird to me as I've been successfully using OxView on this laptop for months without this kind of lagging, until yesterday.

ErikPoppleton commented 1 year ago

Is it oxView that is consuming all the memory? I checked after you sent me this that I could still load big (1.6 million nucleotides) files. My computer didn't like that, but the browser tab will crash if you run your computer entirely out of memory.

Boyu-Liu03 commented 1 year ago

I have no idea how to check that but I am web-browsing for how to.

Boyu-Liu03 commented 1 year ago

https://github.com/sulcgroup/oxdna-viewer/assets/145397546/6aaad413-aaec-4bec-a9cf-643f113d1d69

Hi so I cleared a lot of the memory on my computer and ran Oxview again. Here's a screen-recording?

ErikPoppleton commented 1 year ago

Nothing looks strange there except the very slow rendering...

I am going to revert oxView back to before my last few days of work on the file reader. Let's see if this fixes it for you. I'll also try to get somebody in Arizona to help us out with testing which commit is breaking it so we're not desynced by timezones.

ErikPoppleton commented 1 year ago

We have managed to track down the problem as coming from an update to an external library... Trying to figure out how to work around it.

Boyu-Liu03 commented 1 year ago

Hi Eric!! It worked! Thank you so much!

Boyu-Liu03 commented 1 year ago

Really appreciate it!

ErikPoppleton commented 1 year ago

Okay, turns out it wasn't the external library. I accidentally committed an increase in the resolution of the backbone spheres that I made when making a figure. That has been reverted, the external library successfully updated, and the changes to file IO to support the new topology format pushed to live.

Boyu-Liu03 commented 1 year ago

Okay that's great to hear. Thanks again!