Improve compass performance

Compass seems to be slower than usual and seems to block the UI, freezing the browser for significant amounts of time. We need to figure out why this is happening and fix it.

added component::metrics/compass owner::metrics-team priority::low resolution::wontfix status::closed type::defect labels

Agree.

I assume it is because of code merge at https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/6612#comment:16

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Cc: N/A to karsten

gsathya, are you looking into this, or shall I?

Replying to karsten:

gsathya, are you looking into this, or shall I?

I'm clueless about AngularJS. It'll take quite a while for me to read up on that and figure out what's going on. I hope cwacek can look into this maybe?

Cc'ing cwacek. cwacek, I hope you don't regret submitting a patch. :) Please let us know if you can't look into this, maybe giving us a hint where to look, and either gsathya or I will try to fix this. Thanks!

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Cc: karsten to karsten, cwacek@cs.georgetown.edu

Replying to karsten:

Cc'ing cwacek. cwacek, I hope you don't regret submitting a patch. :) Please let us know if you can't look into this, maybe giving us a hint where to look, and either gsathya or I will try to fix this. Thanks!

Do we have any examples of activity where this occurs? Is it during specific actions, or just generally?

Replying to cwacek:

Do we have any examples of activity where this occurs? Is it during specific actions, or just generally?

I think it's not specific to any query, but it's generally slow. It seems that producing result.json is particularly slow. However, running ./compass.py on the VM is also much slower than, e.g., on my laptop (5 seconds vs. 0.5 seconds). We can't blame the web stuff for this.

So, we could try to make compass.py faster, or we could beef up the VM. Or we could learn the lesson that writing a web wrapper for a command-line tool doesn't magically produce a good website. I'm leaning towards the latter and suggest we focus on gsathya's suggestion in #6682 for providing a faster Compass website.

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Priority: normal to minor

I believe that gsathya has stopped working on any of these tickets quite a while ago. Reassigning to the friendly metrics-team user. (gsathya, thanks for having worked on all these tickets back when you did!)

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Status: new to assigned
Owner: gsathya to metrics-team

The metrics team has put a goal of shutting down Compass in its roadmap and merging functionality with Relay Search (previously known as Atlas). This ticket is specific to Compass and as development on Compass has ceased, I am marking this ticket as wontfix.

See #23517 (moved) for information on the planned work to integrate Compass functionality into Relay Search.

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Resolution: N/A to wontfix
Status: assigned to closed

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