response() function causes application freeze

When using the response() function in Yaak, the application completely freezes for approximately 2 minutes, leaving the UI blank and unresponsive.

Environment:

• OS: Linux (Ubuntu/Mint)

• CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 7730U

• RAM: 15GB total

• Storage: 467GB SSD

• Responses directory size: 184MB (~hundreds of files)

• Directory path: ~/.local/share/app.yaak.desktop/responses

Observed Behavior:

During the freeze, system monitoring (btop) showed:

• RAM usage spike: +100MB increase (from 216MB to 316MB)

• High I/O activity: Disk usage indicator turned RED, suggesting heavy read operations

• Disk reads: Approximately 2.0GB read during the freeze period

• CPU usage: Relatively low (3-21%), ruling out heavy processing

• UI: Completely frozen, no response to user input

Possible Theory:

I'm not entirely sure how the response() function works internally, but based on the observed I/O patterns, I wonder if it might be scanning or reading through the entire responses directory? The correlation between disk activity and the freeze duration made me think this could be a possibility, though I could be wrong about the root cause.

Happy to provide more information or run additional tests if it would help diagnose this!

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