[Xastir] 126,858 stations/objects in Xastir

[Curt Mills]

A point of reference: I put Xastir on a full feed last week and got up to
120k+ stations. I then switched to a range-filtered Firenet feed for the
next 24 hours and the number kept increasing. The max it hit was 126,858
stations, then the number declined as some of the earlier stations started
timing out.

That's by far the highest number of stations I've personally seen in
Xastir. To get there I had to zoom way in and turn off display of
stations/objects/weather alerts. Even then Xastir kept disconnecting from
the remote server periodically because it would get too far behind in
processing packets. After I switched to the filtered feed the processing
time was no longer an issue and it stayed connected to the server.

Xastir's in-memory "database" and packet decoding are not optimized for
those kinds of numbers.

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