Broker CPU / Memory / Performance 

If you require Dewdrop-2.0 for a user to access the non-command options, you really should include that library in the download. Its not standard/advised/etc. to provide a function that needs a library and not include that library in the download.

If you provided the non-command options in Blizzard's option panel instead, that wouldn't be necessary. The user could (for instance) right click the LDB display/minimap icon to open the Blizzard options panel to the mod's options.

confirmed, same for me.
i use DockingStation as my LDB-enabled bar , and i have the exact same issue.

Setting BrokerCPU to refresh itself every second will drastically increase that lag, making it really obvious that it comes from BrokerCPU's refresh call ...

could we narrow it somehow down ?
it must be something in the code, seeing as other similar addons won't produce this lag ...

I too had this problem, when BrokerCPU is enabled and im running, i get very small lag/graphic freezes, where it looks like everything just stops for 10ms about every 2secs.

I was very suprised to find out that i could fix this problem just by disabling brokercpu, and keep all my other much bigger addons enabled.

Not sure why it is doing this, but it does :/

/Rolf

Thanks for the addon. I'm using it to try to find and replace poor performing addons in the hope that it helps my DC problems (which seem to have started when ICC was introduced). I have a few suggestions that I think would make it even better.

1) The sum of all the CPU time spent in addons is shown; I'd like to also see it as a percentage of the total time that has elapsed since the profiler started recording it. Now, enough time is spent in idle where not a lot is going for the addons to process that this number will quickly become very small and so this may not seem very useful unless ....

2) ... an option is added to reset the totals back to 0 and start collecting again from that point. A lot of addons may have a constant level of activity that over time could keep them near the top of the list. But what I'm really looking for are the ones that in the crucnch, say aoe'ing ony's whelp backs, might be bringing WoW to its knees. Being able to reset and start collection before or in the midst of a situation like that could really show which addons have trouble scaling and are the potential problems.

3) With LibQTip installed we get another column showing the rate of growth of memory or cpu usage of an addon. I'd like as an option to be able to have the addons ordered not by total but by rate of change. Again, so you can see which addons are right now, sucking up the most cycles.

Thanks.

I am running this addon along with Statsblock_Folks; for some reason when I have my mouse over your Broker CPU for an extended amount of time (about 6 seconds+) I get this error....any help? I figure I'd post this here since it's your tooltip that seems to be causing the problem.


1x StatBlock_Folks-2.1.4\StatBlock_Folks.lua:25: attempt to index local 'frame' (a nil value)
StatBlock_Folks-2.1.4\StatBlock_Folks.lua:84: in function `OnEnter'
StatBlock_Folks-2.1.4\StatBlock_Folks.lua:53: in function `?'
StatBlock_Folks-2.1.4\StatBlock_Folks.lua:17: in function <StatBlock_Folks\StatBlock_Folks.lua:17>

Locals:
frame = nil
update = "update"
(*temporary) = <function> @ DockingStation\Core.lua:161:
(*temporary) = GameTooltip {
Outfitter_OrigSetBagItem = <function> defined =[C]:-1
SetExistingSocketGem = <function> defined =[C]:-1
SetCurrencyToken = <function> defined =[C]:-1
SetGuildBankItem = <function> defined =[C]:-1
Outfitter_OrigSetHyperlink = <function> defined =[C]:-1
comparing = false
SetSocketGem = <function> defined =[C]:-1
Show = <function> @ TipTac\core.lua:823:
SetUnitDebuff = <function> defined =[C]:-1
SetLootItem = <function> defined =[C]:-1
SetQuestItem = <function> defined =[C]:-1
FadeOut = <function> @ TipTac\core.lua:833:
SetInboxItem = <function> defined =[C]:-1
SetBuybackItem = <function> defined =[C]:-1
shoppingTooltips = <table> {}
SetHyperlinkCompareItem = <function> defined =[C]:-1
SetMerchantItem = <function> defined =[C]:-1
SetMerchantCostItem = <function> defined =[C]:-1
SetBackpackToken = <function> defined =[C]:-1
SetTradeTargetItem = <function> defined =[C]:-1
SetTradePlayerItem = <function> defined =[C]:-1
SetSendMailItem = <function> defined =[C]:-1
updateTooltip = 0.14599999673665
SetInventoryItem = <function> @ Outfitter\Outfitter.lua:6954:
Outfitter_OrigSetInventoryItem = <function> defined =[C]:-1
SetUnitBuff = <function> defined =[C]:-1
SetLootRollItem = <function> defined =[C]:-1
SetUnitAura = <function> defined =[C]:-1
SetTrainerService = <function> defined =[C]:-1
SetAuctionSellItem = <function> defined =[C]:-1
SetBagItem = <function> @ Outfitter\Outfitter.lua:6940:
SetQuestLogItem = <function> defined =[C]:-1
0 = <userdata>
SetHyperlink = <function> @ Outfitter\Outfitter.lua:6974:
SetTradeSkillItem = <function> defined =[C]:-1
SetAuctionItem = <function> defined =[C]:-1
}
fFrame = nil
GetTipAnchor = <function> @ StatBlock_Folks\StatBlock_Folks.lua:24:
L_FRIENDS = " "
format = <function> defined =[C]:-1
Fcount = 1
GetFriendInfo = <function> defined =[C]:-1
RGB2Hex = <function> @ StatBlock_Folks\StatBlock_Folks.lua:57:
Friend2Color = <function> @ StatBlock_Folks\StatBlock_Folks.lua:61:
L_TOOLTIP_F = "
Click to open the friends panel"

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Ironically, this addon was causing me to have periodic lag every time it updated it's tooltip while running. Standing still I noticed no issues.

I like this addon a lot but I had 2 questions.

I should also mention I'm coming from fubar_performanceFu.

Is there a way to make the fps update in real time? I know several others update it constantly, this one takes a few seconds it seems?

Secondly, can I do a mem dump at all with this? I know the performance one could, it helped when I was too lazy to disable recount in BG's etc.

Edit: NVM!!!! I figured out how with the commands. Didn't realize there were any. =)

I have a very small feature request I would like to make, would it be possible to add an option so that the fps can be formatted rounded to whole number or simply truncating the decimal... ide rather look at my fps on the bar as a single 2 or 3 digit number with out the decimal place.

No problem man. =D

Could you make it so that left-clicking the LDB display forces a garbage collect, similar to other memory addons? Would be simpler than having to click, scroll and click. Thanks for your work.

Thanks so much.

I finally found it. However, I recommend you still follow my troubleshooting, as I'm sure the author would like to know about this weirdness.

Open Broker_CPU.lua in an editor like Notepad (make sure it is a plain text editor, not Word or Works). Delete line 1096 completely, leaving no blank line. The line reads:

icon = icon,

You're done.

Hmmm, I don't know about that, I'm not really a programmer, more like a code hacker (in the hackney sense of the word). I'll poke around the lua, but sounds like you've done that already. I know that Broker2Fubar is the reason I finally quit the whole Fubar thing. So many addons were going to LDB and Broker2Fubar had so many issues, yet seemed like there wasn't much support going on for it and the issues that I kept having were mounting up, so I switched to full LDB.

To find out if its a problem with Broker CPU or Broker2Fubar, do this: download an LDB based display like Chocolate Bar or Docking Station, then make sure only that display addon and Broker CPU are the only addons running. If you can turn off the icon and it stays off even after a reload, then its a problem with Broker2Fubar and I'd drop a line to the Broker2Fubar guy.
Be sure to also use the "Report Bugs" button on the front page of this addon to report it as a bug. Be sure to tell the author that you use Broker2Fubar and whether or not your troubleshooting above worked.