Hi guys. I’m pretty used to developing mainly on the terminal (screen, vim, et al). Having used terminals from the browser to develop in the past (GCE, AWS, Cloud 9, etc), I have to say its actually becoming a habit for me already. Naturally, I was delighted to see Glitch even has console access! Of course, restrictions (no sudo) are sad but expected. Yet somehow every time I do a keystroke it actually has a pretty observable delay from the action taking effect, maybe as much as seconds. Sad to say, I can’t really stand that. I’m currently sticking back to dev-ing in the normal glitch, but I’d hate to see Glitch fail here, compared to as advertised. Any ideas?
Hi @irisjay,
unfortunately I am not able to reproduce your issue. These are the causes that come to my mind:
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Where are you located? Our servers are in the US, so if you are typing from Australia, I can see the console being a bit slow for you.
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Is your project doing some heavy computation? The console runs in the same container as your project, and we throttle resources, so that can be a possibility.
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Does it happen sometimes, or always? If it always happen to you, then perhaps there is something new on our end that we need to investigate.
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Does it happen on every device you use to access Glitch? Perhaps it is related to your own device… or to the browser/browser version you’re using.
If you want us to dig a bit further into it, please answer and also share the project names on which you’re seeing this unfortunate behavior!
Thanks
This happens to me when I am running out of computer resources; it is not fixabled by Glitch as it has to do with your computer.
Also make sure you aren’t using any of the following browser plugins (https://glitch.com/help/plugins/) and let us know if this problem still happens in an incognito window.
@etamponi Thanks for your effort! Well, I guess you’re right, I’m actually in Hong Kong, quite very far from the US. But regarding points two to four, well the scripts I’m running are pretty light, and honestly I expect vim to be really snappy, no way ‘heavy’ computation. Yes it does happen all the time, and though I primarily use Glitch from my device, but as a Macbook Pro I don’t expect the problem to be related to my device. My specific project is noon-revolver
, in case you guys happen to want to look into what I’m doing!
Cheers
I haven’t been able to reproduce your issues in a remix of your project, and we haven’t had any other reports of such issues. Please confirm you aren’t using any of the following browser plugins (https://glitch.com/help/plugins/ 5) and let us know if this problem still happens in an incognito window.