Rapture Pro always re-makes its program list - WHY?

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2015/06/08 00:32:01 (permalink)

Rapture Pro always re-makes its program list - WHY?

Everytime Rapture Pro starts up it re-creates its program list: Rapture2Programs.xml.
 
I don't know why it has to do this every time, we used to have to use a function key to update Dimension and Rapture.
 
The first time you do this, it can take a very long time as it has to recurse the program folders and read a lot of files (I have 22,172 programs).
 
However, if you have a lot of memory, the second time it might be a lot faster as the files and directories may still be cached in memory.
 
But then again, a little later, if you open a lot of files, or happen to have that part of memory flushed, you will have to go through the wait again.
 
I use a debugging tool called TaskInfo that lets you flush the file cache, close open files, and tries to allocate all of free memory, then frees it up - thereby mimicking such a symptom.
 
Every time I do this I see horrific load times for Rapture Pro, but the second loads are only a few seconds long.
 

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    arachnaut
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    Re: Rapture Pro always re-makes its program list - WHY? 2015/06/08 03:48:02 (permalink)
    Using ProcMon, I show a screen capture of the start of the program scan after a restart - starting at 12:26:25 and it finishes at 12:27:23 nearly a minute later.
     
    Start:

     
    End:

     
    Then I closed Rapture Pro and started it again. It starts at 12:52:25 and ends at 12:52:28 - about 3 seconds.
     
    Start:

     
    End:

     
     
     
    post edited by arachnaut - 2015/06/08 04:07:20

    - Jim Hurley -
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    ASUS P8P67 PRO Rev 3.0;  Core i7-2600K@4.4GHz; 16 GB G.SKILL Ripjaws X;
    GeForce GT 740; Saffire Pro14 MixControl 3.7; Axiom 61
    64-Bit audio, SR: 48kHz, ASIO 256 samples latency, Rec/Play I/O Buffers 512k, Total Round Trip Latency 13 ms, Pow-r 3 dither 
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    Doktor Avalanche
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    Re: Rapture Pro always re-makes its program list - WHY? 2015/06/08 08:09:10 (permalink)
    Yup the crutch of the issue.

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    Re: Rapture Pro always re-makes its program list - WHY? 2015/06/09 08:24:39 (permalink)
    why? it's more convenient than hitting F5... pffft

    just a sec

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