High Memory Usage on Alias Admin page

[DanrwAU]

Describe the bug
Large memory usage when loading the "Alias" admin page when a large number of aliases are defined.

Tied to fontawesome. does not happen when fontawesome is disabled. suspect number of icons loading has a significant impact

To Reproduce
Load a significant number of aliases in with Icons defined.
Load Alias page, browser will consume high amounts of memory, with a large numebr of aliases this will also crash the browser with an "out of memory" error

Expected behavior
Works

Additional context
Possible solutions https://fontawesome.com/docs/web/add-icons/svg-symbols

[DanrwAU]

fixed in #572 - rolled back to FontAwesome 4 - breaking change

[aaronchitaranjan]

@DanrwAU possible solution that seems to work for me, is to change the 'Technology' of the FA Kit to Web Fonts instead of SVG. I'm getting dramatically improved alias page loads with 700+ aliases

[bullseye555]

@DanrwAU and @aaronchitaranjan - I've tried this too (after seeing the suggestion!) with 9000 odd capcodes.

Only issue has been some icons not loading, but for the sake of having the Alias page loading, I'll happily change the one icon that's not loading!

[aaronchitaranjan]

@DanrwAU and @aaronchitaranjan - I've tried this too (after seeing the suggestion!) with 9000 odd capcodes.

Only issue has been some icons not loading, but for the sake of having the Alias page loading, I'll happily change the one icon that's not loading!

Good to hear. Might be worth adding it to the README/settings page if more people report similar positive results 🤷

[Shaggs]

Have the same issue. Opening alias crashes with 1070 CAPcodes 😳.

Refreshing CAPcodes is also an issue.

Have issues on rpi and i5 16gb RAM (testing to see if it was a memory issue).

Looks to be a limitation with node?

[aaronchitaranjan]

Have the same issue. Opening alias crashes with 1070 CAPcodes 😳.

Refreshing CAPcodes is also an issue.

Have issues on rpi and i5 16gb RAM (testing to see if it was a memory issue).

Looks to be a limitation with node?

Did changing the icon pack technology help?

[Shaggs]

Did changing the icon pack technology help?

As in changing from webfonts to svg? Not yet reading now how to do it.

[Shaggs]

I had it set to SVG now changed to web font.

[aaronchitaranjan]

I had it set to SVG now changed to web font.

Let us know how you go :)

[Shaggs]

I had it set to SVG now changed to web font.

Let us know how you go :)

Yeah that fixed it. 👍

[s3m1s0n1c]

I fixed it by using
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/font-awesome/4.7.0/css/font-awesome.css" integrity="sha512-5A8nwdMOWrSz20fDsjczgUidUBR8liPYU+WymTZP1lmY9G6Oc7HlZv156XqnsgNUzTyMefFTcsFH/tnJE/+xBg==" crossorigin="anonymous" referrerpolicy="no-referrer" /> in header.ejs
instead of the one in there..

[gg33fr]

Hello, when I add aliases, and I do a refresh I have the circle that turns on the page and the refresh does not take place.
This actually looks like a memory problem.
I added the command line given by s3m1s0n1c, maybe I did it wrong.
Can you put the entire header.ejs file
I am on the PagerMon 0.3.11-beta version with a pi 4 - 1GB
Thanks

[Shaggs]

Hello, when I add aliases, and I do a refresh I have the circle that turns on the page and the refresh does not take place. This actually looks like a memory problem. I added the command line given by s3m1s0n1c, maybe I did it wrong. Can you put the entire header.ejs file I am on the PagerMon 0.3.11-beta version with a pi 4 - 1GB Thanks

Just change to Web font.. much easier