Overall very slow response of Github Desktop GUI.

Description

Github Desktop on Windows runs very slow and is hardly responsive. Switching between Changes and History takes 3-15 seconds. Opening the selector for the repositories takes multiple seconds as well. Basically every single step takes ages, but my CPU usage never exceeds 4-5%.

Version

GitHub Desktop version: 1.0.11 OS : Windows 10 - 1709 OS build 19299.125 GPU 1 : NVidia Geforce GTX - driver: GeForce Game Ready Driver version 388.71 GPU 0 : Intel® HD Graphics

Steps to Reproduce

1. Open Github Desktop
2. wait
3. Click on “Current Repository”
4. wait very long
5. select another repository
6. wait again
7. Click on “History”
8. wait 4-10 seconds before anything happens
9. Click on a random earlier commit to see what changed.
10. wait again for a very long time

Expected behavior: A responsive GUI

Actual behavior: A very unresponsive GUI

Reproduces how often: Every time

Logs

Additional Information

When using the dev tools feature, my CPU goes up to around 75%. Without, it never gets anywhere above 10%.

I run BitDefender as antivirus, and I had problems last month due to an update of their live threat analysis tool. But these ones are solved before. There’s also a conflict with Windows Defender so I turned off the randomization of memory addresses in there (that caused my memory to fill up to over 90% without any programs open).

So no clue whether it’s related to the mess Windows created with their hideous Creator Fall update, but Github Desktop is the only app I use that responds that slow.

Included are the log files of today, and a Performance recording doing the actions described in the Reproduction.

2018-01-04.desktop.production.log Profile-20180104T140734.zip

[JoFAM]

OK, my bad. I turned off all functionality in BitDefender and indeed, the problem disappeared. So it’s them. I will go and haunt their QA department now.

Thanks for thinking with me.

[shiftkey]

@JoFAM no problem - good luck!