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Services still blocking all threads while logging in with every Unity launch

Discussion in '5.6 Beta' started by MrLucid72, Mar 20, 2017.

  1. MrLucid72

    MrLucid72

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    Hey guys --

    For the 5.6 launch, I am really hoping it will include putting Services on it's own thread -- it blocks all operations while signing in. I remember reading it was going to be released for 5.6, but I am afraid that I haven't seen it yet :/

    I probably restart Unity about 10 times a day -- if it takes 10 minutes to sign in each time, that's about an hour wasted daily.

    It would be really, really nice to see this fix (services sign in on a separate thread) in 5.6f2 :)

    <3

    TL;DR: Signing into services blocks all threads, making launching Unity a 10-minute task. There were plans of having it on a separate thread in 5.6, so please please add it :)
     
    Last edited: Mar 20, 2017
    MrLucid72, Mar 20, 2017
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  2. superpig

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    Hold on, you're spending close to 10 minutes waiting for the Services window to display after the Editor launches?
     
    superpig, Mar 20, 2017
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  3. MrLucid72

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    Yes -- my teammate, too -- we use collab, if that helps. Our project is quite big (it's a 3D online mplayer game), so I don't know if size impacts this wait time. I have a decent i5, 16gb ram, nvidia gtx 970, 150mbps down connection. However, upon signing in, I'm frozen for up to 10 minutes until I'm 100% logged in and collab is loaded.

    Ever since we used collab, it's always done this. We LOVE collab, but this part sucks :D
     
    MrLucid72, Mar 21, 2017
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  4. superpig

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    Any chance you could record a screen capture video of it, the next time you're launching Unity? That'd be extremely helpful to demonstrate exactly which parts of Unity have/haven't loaded before the freeze happens, and will save us going back and forth a bunch of times with more questions.
     
    superpig, Mar 21, 2017
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  5. MrLucid72

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    Hmm, ok so 1m30s frozen, hahah... sure felt like 10 minutes :D

     
    MrLucid72, Mar 21, 2017
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  6. superpig

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    Aha, thanks! This looks very similar to what I've seen on other large Collab-enabled projects, which was a freeze while Collab is hashing the assets in your project to check if updates are needed. I've asked the Collab team if they can take a look at this thread and see if they agree.
     
    superpig, Mar 21, 2017
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