One Simple KM 10 Setting That Can Improve Performance

[tiffle]

Up until recently, I've been experiencing severe slow-downs and even prolonged non-responsiveness of the KM editor. This was especially noticeable after just running the KM app.

What I found was the following setting was the cause - Evaluate Condition Results. Here is how it looked on my system:

All I did was uncheck this setting and I've had no further sluggish/non-responsive behaviour.

By way of explanation, this setting determines whether or not KM proactively works out the results of all the conditional clauses etc. (in for example If Then actions and suchlike) while you're using the KM editor. On my system, I have a very large number of such conditions and the result was very high levels of CPU activity shown in Activity Monitor for the KM process.

I know some other KM users have reported performance issues in this forum; perhaps this tip will be a help in resolving such problems!

As always - YMMV.

[cdthomer]

An important reminder for sure. Especially since a lot of new users make heavy use of Found Image actions that can really bog down the CPU.

[NaOH]

@tiffle

Up until recently, I've been experiencing severe slow-downs and even prolonged non-responsiveness of the KM editor. This was especially noticeable after just running the KM app.

What I found was the following setting was the cause - Evaluate Condition Results.

Just a note that this menu item is only available in Keyboard Maestro version 10 or later.

[tiffle]

Good catch @NaOH - I've changed the thread title to reflect this. Thanks!

[cfriend]

@cdthomer

An important reminder for sure. Especially since a lot of new users make heavy use of Found Image actions that can really bog down the CPU.

Funny, I went to find this topic to link here:

Why Embedding Images Directly Into a Found Image's Action Is a Bad Idea

Howdy folks, I'm writing this to explain why it is better to use file paths to reference images in any found image action instead of embedding the image directly in the action's image well (usually done by clicking and dragging the image into the square box). Your entire macro library is stored in a single plist file in Keyboard Maestro's Application Support directory. It is usually only a couple of MB in size (unless you're like me and have over 1,000 macros). Any change you make to any macro …

And uh, you wrote it I've converted all of my find images to file references because of that tip, so thanks again!

[cdthomer]

Haha glad you found it helpful!

-Chris