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Kleopatra: Improve startup performance
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This is intended to be a meta issue to improve the use case:

  1. All background processes and Kleopatra closed
  2. Right click a file and select sign + encrypt.

-> The time it takes until the Windows is shown and functional and the sign/encrypt button is clickable.

On a fairly fast VM this takes an average of about 5 Seconds. It can sometimes take much longer, I think auto-check-trustdb could be a reason for this.
Startup timing shows the SelfCheck completed after about 1s.

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rKLEOPATRA Kleopatra
rKLEOPATRAd80112e08257 Defer instantiation of ReaderStatus
rKLEOPATRA436e124a414c Set application attributes before constructing KleopatraApplication
rKLEOPATRAe1ee19493a8f Make startup timer global and add Macro
rKLEOPATRA63b8ff130a53 Start KUniqueService ASAP
rW Gpg4win
rW71f8f00d448e Build subset of included breeze icons

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• aheinecke triaged this task as High priority.Oct 27 2022, 10:38 AM
• aheinecke created this task.
• aheinecke added a subtask: T4066: Kleopatra, performance: Use icons as a resource.
• aheinecke lowered the priority of this task from High to Normal.Oct 27 2022, 10:41 AM
• aheinecke added a subtask: T4067: Kleopatra, performance: Create a system to use binary resources for i18n.Oct 27 2022, 12:05 PM
• ikloecker changed the status of subtask T6261: Kleopatra / QGPGME: Use --no-auto-check-trustdb for initial keylisting from Open to Testing.Nov 4 2022, 11:08 AM
• aheinecke closed subtask T4067: Kleopatra, performance: Create a system to use binary resources for i18n as Wontfix.Jan 10 2023, 4:50 PM
• aheinecke closed subtask T6260: gpgconf: Analyze timing on Windows as Resolved.Jan 11 2023, 2:54 PM
• aheinecke added a comment.Jan 11 2023, 5:04 PM

Another thing I have noticed when turning qt debug output on is that the qt windows platformsupport fontdatabase logs over a a timespan of over two seconds that it is adding fonts to its database.

void QWindowsFontDatabase::populateFontDatabase()
{
    removeApplicationFonts();
    HDC dummy = GetDC(0);
    LOGFONT lf;
    lf.lfCharSet = DEFAULT_CHARSET;
    lf.lfFaceName[0] = 0;
    lf.lfPitchAndFamily = 0;
    EnumFontFamiliesEx(dummy, &lf, populateFontFamilies, 0, 0);
    ReleaseDC(0, dummy);
    // Work around EnumFontFamiliesEx() not listing the system font.
    QString systemDefaultFamily = QWindowsFontDatabase::systemDefaultFont().family();
    if (QPlatformFontDatabase::resolveFontFamilyAlias(systemDefaultFamily) == systemDefaultFamily)
        QPlatformFontDatabase::registerFontFamily(systemDefaultFamily);
    addDefaultEUDCFont();
}

The only place where they can be changed afaik is to change the fonts of certificate list in kleopatra settings. I think we can drastically reduce that list or just remove that option and patch qt to only load the system font.

• aheinecke moved this task from Restricted Project Column to Restricted Project Column on the Restricted Project board.Jan 18 2023, 10:17 AM
• aheinecke added a comment.Jan 18 2023, 3:36 PM

I am somehwat confused, my symantec system got faster. But there are some things like "Symantec Insight" which will whitelist often used files and applications, also signed files might get preferred treatment. I tried to get this slower by disabling the "Insight" and changing the "Bloodhound behavior" to agressive... So timings might not be comparable. I should probably do tests ohne without restarting my systems for a good comparison.

Anyway. Here is my baseline, nearly unmodified, with some bits of code moved around and added timings:

[1956] org.kde.pim.kleopatra: ReaderStatus::Private: Using deprecated FileSystemWatcher
[1956] org.kde.pim.libkleo: adding
[1956]   "C:\\Users\\g10code\\AppData\\Roaming\\gnupg" 
[1956] /end
[1956] org.kde.pim.kleopatra: Startup timing: 343 ms: Application created
[1956] org.kde.pim.kleopatra: Responder handle: 0x0
[1956] org.kde.pim.kleopatra: Created responder:  0x8fc5c4  with handle:  0x4035c
[1956] org.kde.pim.kleopatra: Startup timing: 345 ms: Service created
[1956] Attribute Qt::AA_EnableHighDpiScaling must be set before QCoreApplication is created.
[1956] org.kde.pim.kleopatra: Application created
[1956] org.kde.pim.kleopatra: Startup timing: 346 ms: GPGME Initialized
[1956] org.kde.pim.libkleo: No signed VERSION file found.
[1956] org.kde.pim.libkleo: Parsed 2.2.41 as:  2 . 2 . 41 .
[1956] org.kde.pim.libkleo: Running gpgconf --show-versions ...
[1956] org.kde.pim.libkleo: gpgconf stdout: ""
[1956] org.kde.pim.kleopatra: Startup timing: 1036 ms: Versions checked
[1956] org.kde.pim.kleopatra: Got ElevationToken  0
[1956] org.kde.pim.kleopatra: Startup timing: 1036 ms: /home/aheinecke/dev/main/src/gpg4win/src/playground/build/kleopatra-202212211440/src/kleopatraapplication.cpp init 305
[1956] org.kde.pim.kleopatra: Startup timing: 1044 ms: /home/aheinecke/dev/main/src/gpg4win/src/playground/build/kleopatra-202212211440/src/kleopatraapplication.cpp init 314
[1956] org.kde.pim.kleopatra: Startup timing: 1148 ms: /home/aheinecke/dev/main/src/gpg4win/src/playground/build/kleopatra-202212211440/src/kleopatraapplication.cpp init 316
[1956] org.kde.pim.kleopatra: Startup timing: 1149 ms: /home/aheinecke/dev/main/src/gpg4win/src/playground/build/kleopatra-202212211440/src/kleopatraapplication.cpp init 324
[1956] org.kde.pim.libkleo: agentIsRunning : Connecting to the agent failed.
[1956] org.kde.pim.libkleo: Starting gpgconf (QProcess(0x200ebd0)) with arguments "--launch gpg-agent" ...
[1956] org.kde.pim.libkleo: gpgconf (QProcess(0x200ebd0)) was started successfully
[1956] org.kde.pim.kleopatra: Startup timing: 3209 ms: /home/aheinecke/dev/main/src/gpg4win/src/playground/build/kleopatra-202212211440/src/kleopatraapplication.cpp init 326
[1956] org.kde.pim.kleopatra: Startup timing: 3209 ms: /home/aheinecke/dev/main/src/gpg4win/src/playground/build/kleopatra-202212211440/src/kleopatraapplication.cpp init 329
[1956] org.kde.pim.libkleo: adding
[1956]   "C:/Users/g10code/AppData/Roaming/gnupg\n C:/Users/g10code/AppData/Roaming/gnupg/private-keys-v1.d\n C:/Users/g10code/AppData/Roaming/gnupg/pubring.kbx\n C:/Users/g10code/AppData/Roaming/gnupg/trustdb.gpg" 
[1956] /end
[1956] org.kde.pim.kleopatra: Startup timing: 3212 ms: /home/aheinecke/dev/main/src/gpg4win/src/playground/build/kleopatra-202212211440/src/kleopatraapplication.cpp init 331
[1956] org.kde.pim.kleopatra: Startup timing: 3253 ms: /home/aheinecke/dev/main/src/gpg4win/src/playground/build/kleopatra-202212211440/src/kleopatraapplication.cpp init 333
[1956] org.kde.pim.kleopatra: Startup timing: 3254 ms: /home/aheinecke/dev/main/src/gpg4win/src/playground/build/kleopatra-202212211440/src/kleopatraapplication.cpp init 335
[1956] org.kde.pim.kleopatra: Startup timing: 3254 ms: /home/aheinecke/dev/main/src/gpg4win/src/playground/build/kleopatra-202212211440/src/kleopatraapplication.cpp init 337
[1956] org.kde.pim.kleopatra: Startup timing: 3254 ms: /home/aheinecke/dev/main/src/gpg4win/src/playground/build/kleopatra-202212211440/src/kleopatraapplication.cpp init 346
[1956] kf.windowsystem: Could not find any platform plugin
[1956] org.kde.pim.kleopatra: Startup timing: 3259 ms: /home/aheinecke/dev/main/src/gpg4win/src/playground/build/kleopatra-202212211440/src/kleopatraapplication.cpp init 351
[1956] org.kde.pim.kleopatra: Startup timing: 3259 ms: Application initialized
[1956] org.kde.pim.kleopatra: Startup timing: 3260 ms: UiServer created
[1956] org.kde.pim.kleopatra: Startup timing: 3268 ms: UiServer started
[1956] org.kde.pim.kleopatra: Checking Windows Registry...
[1956] org.kde.pim.kleopatra: Checking Ui Server connectivity...
[1956] org.kde.pim.kleopatra: UiServer: client connect on fd  1280
[1956] org.kde.pim.kleopatra: UiServer: client connection  0x45e4658  established successfully
[1956] org.kde.pim.libkleopatraclientcore: Server PID = 1956
[1956] org.kde.pim.kleopatra: UiServer: connection  0x45e4658  closed
[1956] org.kde.pim.kleopatra: Checking gpg installation...
[1956] org.kde.pim.kleopatra: Checking gpgsm installation...
[1956] org.kde.pim.kleopatra: Checking gpgconf installation...
[1956] org.kde.pim.kleopatra: Checking configuration of: 
[1956] org.kde.pim.kleopatra: Checking configuration of: gpg
[1956] org.kde.pim.kleopatra: Checking configuration of: gpg-agent
[1956] org.kde.pim.kleopatra: Checking configuration of: scdaemon
[1956] org.kde.pim.kleopatra: Checking configuration of: gpgsm
[1956] org.kde.pim.kleopatra: Checking configuration of: dirmngr
[1956] org.kde.pim.libkleo: KeyFilterManager:: reload final filter count is 17
[1956] org.kde.pim.kleopatra: ArchiveDefinition[ "tar" ] ("C:\\Gpg4win\\..\\GnuPG/bin/gpgtar", "--utf8-strings", "--openpgp", "--skip-crypto", "--output", "-", "--encrypt", "-T-", "--null", "--")
[1956] org.kde.pim.kleopatra: ArchiveDefinition[ "tar" ] find -print0 |  "C:/Gpg4win/../GnuPG/bin/gpgtar.exe" ("--utf8-strings", "--openpgp", "--skip-crypto", "--output", "-", "--encrypt", "-T-", "--null", "--")
[1956] org.kde.pim.kleopatra: ArchiveDefinition[ "tar" ] ("C:\\Gpg4win\\..\\GnuPG/bin/gpgtar", "--utf8-strings", "--cms", "--skip-crypto", "--output", "-", "--encrypt", "-T-", "--null", "--")
[1956] org.kde.pim.kleopatra: ArchiveDefinition[ "tar" ] find -print0 |  "C:/Gpg4win/../GnuPG/bin/gpgtar.exe" ("--utf8-strings", "--cms", "--skip-crypto", "--output", "-", "--encrypt", "-T-", "--null", "--")
[1956] org.kde.pim.kleopatra: ArchiveDefinition[ "tar" ] ("C:\\Gpg4win\\..\\GnuPG/bin/gpgtar", "--utf8-strings", "--openpgp", "--skip-crypto", "--set-filename", "%F", "--decrypt", "--", "-")
[1956] org.kde.pim.kleopatra: ArchiveDefinition[ "tar" ] "C:/Gpg4win/../GnuPG/bin/gpgtar.exe" ("--utf8-strings", "--openpgp", "--skip-crypto", "--set-filename", "%F", "--decrypt", "--", "-") "%f" ()
[1956] org.kde.pim.kleopatra: ArchiveDefinition[ "tar" ] ("C:\\Gpg4win\\..\\GnuPG/bin/gpgtar", "--utf8-strings", "--cms", "--skip-crypto", "--set-filename", "%F", "--decrypt", "--", "-")
[1956] org.kde.pim.kleopatra: ArchiveDefinition[ "tar" ] "C:/Gpg4win/../GnuPG/bin/gpgtar.exe" ("--utf8-strings", "--cms", "--skip-crypto", "--set-filename", "%F", "--decrypt", "--", "-") "%f" ()
[1956] org.kde.pim.libkleo: ChecksumDefinition[ "sha256sum" ] ("C:\\Gpg4win/bin/sha256sum", "-0", "-")
[1956] org.kde.pim.libkleo: ChecksumDefinition[ "sha256sum" ] find -print0 |  "C:/Gpg4win/bin/sha256sum.exe" ("-0", "-")
[1956] org.kde.pim.libkleo: ChecksumDefinition[ "sha256sum" ] ("C:\\Gpg4win/bin/sha256sum", "-c")
[1956] org.kde.pim.libkleo: ChecksumDefinition[ "sha256sum" ] "C:/Gpg4win/bin/sha256sum.exe" ("-c") "%f" ()
[1956] org.kde.pim.libkleo: ChecksumDefinition[ "sha1sum" ] ("C:\\Gpg4win/bin/sha1sum", "-0", "-")
[1956] org.kde.pim.libkleo: ChecksumDefinition[ "sha1sum" ] find -print0 |  "C:/Gpg4win/bin/sha1sum.exe" ("-0", "-")
[1956] org.kde.pim.libkleo: ChecksumDefinition[ "sha1sum" ] ("C:\\Gpg4win/bin/sha1sum", "-c")
[1956] org.kde.pim.libkleo: ChecksumDefinition[ "sha1sum" ] "C:/Gpg4win/bin/sha1sum.exe" ("-c") "%f" ()
[1956] org.kde.pim.libkleo: ChecksumDefinition[ "md5sum" ] ("C:\\Gpg4win/bin/md5sum", "-0", "-")
[1956] org.kde.pim.libkleo: ChecksumDefinition[ "md5sum" ] find -print0 |  "C:/Gpg4win/bin/md5sum.exe" ("-0", "-")
[1956] org.kde.pim.libkleo: ChecksumDefinition[ "md5sum" ] ("C:\\Gpg4win/bin/md5sum", "-c")
[1956] org.kde.pim.libkleo: ChecksumDefinition[ "md5sum" ] "C:/Gpg4win/bin/md5sum.exe" ("-c") "%f" ()
[1956] org.kde.pim.kleopatra: 
[1956] org.kde.pim.kleopatra: 
[1956] org.kde.pim.kleopatra: Startup timing: 4364 ms: SelfCheck completed
[1956] org.kde.pim.kleopatra: openOrRaiseMainWindow
[1956] org.kde.pim.kleopatra: Startup timing: 4364 ms: Creating MainWindow
[1956] org.kde.pim.kleopatra: Waiting for Keycache to be initialized.
[1956] kf.config.core: Use of KConfigWatcher without DBus support. You will not receive updates
[1956] org.kde.pim.kleopatra: Startup timing: 4758 ms: MainWindow created
[1956] org.kde.pim.kleopatra: open_or_raise showing window
[1956] org.kde.pim.kleopatra: you need to register view Kleo::NavigatableTreeView(0x46c6430, name="m_view") before trying to set it as the current view!
[1956] org.kde.pim.kleopatra: Startup timing: 5118 ms: MainWindow raised
[1956] org.kde.pim.libkleo: gpg4winVersionNumber returns "3.1.27-beta26"
[1956] org.kde.pim.kleopatra: No update for: "3.1.27-beta26"
[1956] org.kde.pim.kleopatra: Startup timing: 5252 ms: /home/aheinecke/dev/main/src/gpg4win/src/playground/build/kleopatra-202212211440/src/kleopatraapplication.cpp openOrRaiseMainWindow 701
[1956] org.kde.pim.kleopatra: Startup timing: 5253 ms: new instance created
[1956] org.kde.pim.kleopatra: Waiting for Keycache to be initialized.
[1956] org.kde.pim.libkleo: Reading config group "Icons"
[1956] org.kde.pim.kleopatra: 
[1956] org.kde.pim.kleopatra: 
[1956] org.kde.pim.kleopatra: ReaderStatusThread[2nd]: new iteration command= "__update__"  ; nullSlot= true
[1956] org.kde.pim.kleopatra: update_cardinfo()
[1956] org.kde.pim.libkleo: sendCommand "SCD SERIALNO"
[1956] org.kde.pim.libkleo: Connecting to the agent failed. Retrying in 125 ms
[1956] org.kde.pim.libkleo: Connecting to the agent failed. Retrying in 250 ms
[1956] org.kde.pim.libkleo: sendCommand "SCD SERIALNO" failed: No such device (code: 32848, source: SCD)
[1956] org.kde.pim.libkleo: sendStatusLinesCommand "SCD SERIALNO" : t == NULL
[1956] org.kde.pim.kleopatra: update_cardinfo: No card present
cklassen added a subscriber: cklassen.Jan 19 2023, 2:05 PM
• aheinecke added a commit: rKLEOPATRA63b8ff130a53: Start KUniqueService ASAP.Feb 15 2023, 10:50 AM
• aheinecke added a commit: rKLEOPATRAe1ee19493a8f: Make startup timer global and add Macro.
• ikloecker added a commit: rKLEOPATRA436e124a414c: Set application attributes before constructing KleopatraApplication.Feb 16 2023, 9:57 AM
• ikloecker added a commit: rKLEOPATRAd80112e08257: Defer instantiation of ReaderStatus.
• aheinecke changed the status of subtask T6346: Kleopatra: Run self test only at the first start on windows from Open to Testing.Mar 13 2023, 10:01 AM
svuorela added a subscriber: svuorela.Jul 6 2023, 9:56 AM

I did a little bit of testing with okular, and it kind of gives similar numbers.

First start is 2.5 times slower than the next starts. This is the case both compiled with mingw and with msvc, although a msvc compiled version is 10-20% faster in startup than a mingw compiled one. The profiling tools is supposedly better with msvc so there could be a path that way to get closer to what's up.

• ebo closed subtask T6346: Kleopatra: Run self test only at the first start on windows as Resolved.Oct 9 2023, 1:57 PM
• aheinecke added a comment.Oct 13 2023, 2:48 PM

So, I smashed this all together. The icon subset and the cross compile patch, and my time for first startup was 5 seconds then once with procmon enabled 7 seconds and now with a reduced set of icons I am down to Kleopatra to 1.7seconds. The icon subset is just 1.4mb. With all the icons we would have installed for Okular and Kleopatra. I don't have enough time to clean this up today to push it but this looks very good.
Although I am thinking to add a way to kicontheme maybe as a global variable to provide the name for the resource file so that we can properly switch between breeze-dark and breeze.

• aheinecke added a comment.Oct 13 2023, 2:51 PM

Mmh, on further checking I notice that some icons are missing though. Need to investigate where they went. I basically just took the inst-breeze.nsi file, and removed all the NSIS things and did a sort -u on it to create the list of icons.

• aheinecke added a comment.Oct 13 2023, 3:16 PM

Ah nevermind missing icons were related because I also removed the highcolor icons for testing.

I have pushed my work from today so that the only thing remains is to update the inst-breeze / uninst-breeze nsi files and figure out what to do with breeze-dark.

• aheinecke added a commit: rW71f8f00d448e: Build subset of included breeze icons.Oct 13 2023, 3:16 PM
• aheinecke closed subtask T6261: Kleopatra / QGPGME: Use --no-auto-check-trustdb for initial keylisting as Resolved.Oct 16 2023, 1:04 PM
• aheinecke changed the task status from Open to Testing.Nov 15 2023, 9:34 AM
• aheinecke changed the status of subtask T6344: Kleopatra, GPG: AboutData ctor on Windows takes too long from Open to Testing.
• aheinecke added a project: vsd32.

Same as with T6344 this is already in beta-277

• aheinecke changed the status of subtask T4066: Kleopatra, performance: Use icons as a resource from Open to Testing.Nov 15 2023, 9:36 AM
• ebo moved this task from Backlog to QA on the vsd32 board.Nov 15 2023, 10:43 AM
• aheinecke changed the status of subtask T6344: Kleopatra, GPG: AboutData ctor on Windows takes too long from Testing to Open.Nov 15 2023, 11:17 AM
• ebo closed subtask T4066: Kleopatra, performance: Use icons as a resource as Resolved.Nov 17 2023, 3:10 PM
• ebo moved this task from QA to WiP on the vsd32 board.Nov 21 2023, 4:14 PM
• aheinecke closed subtask T6344: Kleopatra, GPG: AboutData ctor on Windows takes too long as Resolved.Nov 25 2023, 5:06 PM
• aheinecke closed this task as Resolved.Nov 25 2023, 10:16 PM
• aheinecke claimed this task.

I'm quite happy with that now. The only thing left to do would be to benchmark this, but to keep this as a an open task for that seems wrong.

• ebo moved this task from WiP to vsd-3.2.0 on the vsd32 board.Nov 27 2023, 8:42 AM
• ebo edited projects, added vsd32 (vsd-3.2.0); removed vsd32.