[missing-sync-palmos-talk] Re: Anything using SyncServices takes a long time to sync - why?

[E-Commerce]

> > It isn't necessarily Sync Services that is causing the slowdown.
> > Its more like our conduits and their interaction with Sync
> > Services, and it is something I'm currently working on. Things will
> > get better. :)
> >
> > The slowdown gets worse with a greater number of records. I sync
> > ~300 contacts lickity-split, but many users have > 1000 contacts.
> > And tons of events going back years.

That's just it - I don't have very much data, but the sync times are  
*extremely* slow. I noticed this the other day when watching how long  
"Tasks" took. Here are my numbers:

Events: 1140 records; 1 minute, 5 seconds
Contacts: 64 records; 20 seconds
Tasks: 5 records; 1 minute, 10 seconds (!!!)

I can only surmise that both the tasks and events conduits are  
processing *all* of the iCal data, and even so, over a minute for  
1145 records (none of which have changed) seems excessive. I  
performed a "desktop overwrites handheld" the other day as well (I  
long for the day when I can forget that option exists), hoping that  
would ease things - no noticeable change.

Palm Desktop could sync a similar dataset in about 10 seconds; I  
could go from hitting the hotsync button to disconnecting and leaving  
in 20 seconds, and that was with all conduits and the startup and  
cleanup phases.

Thanks again - here's hoping that once more important data  
consistency bugs are squashed that speed optimization can take place.

  - Joshua Ochs