The reconnection loop uses a huge amount of CPU

[ian]

If a chatmail server is down (even if you have just 1-2 accounts on each affected server), the animating of the cycling of down - connecting… is spinning the CPU quite a bit when the window is open, even when it is obscured and you aren’t touching it.

It might also have something to do with the spinners of messages pending to be sent.

2.35.0

[link2xt]

Related:

Remove spinners from the UI

All Delta Chat UIs currently show a spinner next to the queued animated messages. Here is a screenshot from Delta Chat Desktop 2.35: [image] Once the message is sent, it is replaced with a single checkmark. The problem with using the spinner next to queued messages is that UI does not know if there is any progress actually being made. Spinner is displayed even if if there is no network, so if you post multiple messages, you get an animated spinner next to each message while only one message i…

[link2xt]

There is some work to improve performance of event processing in Desktop: perf: batched event reception by link2xt · Pull Request #7825 · chatmail/core · GitHub, perf: stop handling JSON-RPC `Info` events · Issue #5282 · deltachat/deltachat-desktop · GitHub