Any chance you can make QuiteRSS run faster? I have 400+ feeds and it can hang up on me a lot. I've shopped around for other feed readers and found GreatNews RSS Reader, which is no longer updated and lacks a lot of the features I need, but updates all my feeds in seconds, without any hang ups between switching feeds and such. Any chance you can make it run as well as that?
15.10.2016 06:22
#1
Hi,
if you face performance problems there are some things you can do.
- Check the size of the file feeds.db.
- Enable and set clean-up options under Tools -> Feeds -> Clean-Up.
- Check the option "Store DB in memory" under Tools -> General and try to run QuiteRSS with the option disabled.
- Check the network connection under Tools -> Network Connection. Do you use proxies?
Be aware that some performance issues can be related to the feed's host server.
Kind regards,
Sheldon
Thank you for the reply, Sheldon.
- I don't know where to find feeds.db, but when exporting an OPML, the file is 115kb.
- I have done this since first installing QuiteRSS.
- I have done this since first installing QuiteRSS.
- No proxies.
QuiteRSS is great, but the overall performance needs a significant boost. Download GreatNews RSS Reader, throw in 400+ feeds in both QuiteRSS and GreatNewsRSS and see how they compare speed-wise. It's no issue for GreatNews RSS - no hang-ups, you can switch quickly between feeds, etc. things load instantly. QuiteRSS on the other hand is the opposite. Which is unfortunately because QuiteRSS's features are overall better.
You can try to reduce the file size of database "feeds.db" (C:\....\QuiteRSS\feeds.db) with this program:
DB Browser for SQLite Portable --> http://portableapps.com/apps/development/sqlite_database_browser_portable
1. File -> open database "feeds.db"
2. File --> compact database --> ok
First do a backup of feeds.db
Unfortunately a compact database command might not be enough. First you should provide the file size of feeds.db and the total number of news in your QuiteRSS before we can do further steps.
feeds.db --> 98 Mb and 599 feeds
quiterss folder --> 245 Mb
First do a backup of feeds.db or entire quiterss folder and if you don't like this compact database, you can restore everything again. Quiterss is portable.
You don`'t lose anything by trying.
http://i.imgur.com/QgSUcRp.jpg
Sorry, I don't get it. Is 98 MB the actual figure or where is it coming from? If so please provide the number of news (not feeds!).
98 Mb is actual size
6953 unread news
Thank you Sheldon for this great program !!!
How many read news?
0 zero
OK! So we have the culprit. It's the feeds.db.
From the post above I assume that you are familiar with SQL. Right?
Sorry, i don't have any idea how sql database works, lol.
I regulary compact feed.db with SQLiteDatabaseBrowserPortable, like i do with Speedyfox and Firefox.
And if above does not work:
1- I do a "exports my feeds to opml"
2- Delete all feeds and folders
3- Compact feeds.db (i think inside are my filters too, so I never delete it)
4-Import opml.
Then current size will be about 30 Mb and QuiteRSS works very very fast
I see! This is a possible but very rough way.
First of all you should enable the option
"Enable DB optimization"
in your clean-up settings.
Do you know how to commit a sql statement in your db access tool? Just look it up.
The statement to commit first would be
Select * from news where deleted = 2
You might get a lot of records.
... but what other processes, programs are running at the same time?
I give QuiteRSS full use of the CPU when starting up and downloading a day's feed.
Then I run other things like 1000 tab browsers and such later.
Hi,
there is no over QuiteRSS process. This sounds like a db problem.
Did you set clean up options?
Just provide the following figures::
- total number of news
- size of feeds.db
Kind regards,
Sheldon
Mine was updating slow, too. So, I checked all the feeds and found quite a few that were obsolete. QuiteRSS does multiple attempts to read, slowing it down. I removed feeds that were no longer active and it ran a lot faster.