Dead Switch

[keith-gardner]

Processing hanging on Mac 15.3.1.

Background: Branta successfully runs for days at a time.

Initially I thought the software hit a deadlock, but after kill -9 it looks like my derivation search was set to 100000.

So the scenario is an unknown address in the clipboard, while the user has wallets set for deep searches.

Possible Solutions

• Lets still allow unlimited search range
• Lets mitigate main thread processing, move deeper searches to a background thread
• Show spinner when Branta threads are crunching through a deeper wallet search
• Menu bar item could have text:
  • "Ongoing address Search"
  • "Stop" to end the search through the wallets - and save the CPU? Needs to be super user friendly.
• Open to other ideas

Additional Questions

• How many addresses can our runtime check in 1 hour?
• How much memory can Branta allocate for long searches?

[kylemccullen]

One solution is to provide feedback to the user that addresses are being searched (using a loading symbol)