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spot collector was slowing down
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k9us <k9us@...>
My spot collector over the past month was going slower and slower each
day. Until I could not use spot collector at all. I removed all other program from my laptop but my task manager was showing spot collector taking 90-95% of my CPU all the time. My computer was running so slow it was useless. I finally turned off IRC in the spot collector config and my pc is now running back to normal speed. Not sure what IRC was doing to my PC, but it made all the difference in the world. Any ideas? My pc is now running at it normal speed and spot collector is working fine with IRC not selected. Tim K9US
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Dave AA6YQ
IRC uses a variant of the same Telnet protocol used by the DXClusters,
so its not obvious why it alone would cause you trouble, Tim. None of the scenarios I can invent to explain this seem very likely, other than that old chestnut "Windows is confused"... How big is your spot database? Is SpotCollector configured to keep it pruned? 73, Dave, AA6YQ --- In dxlab@yahoogroups.com, "k9us" <k9us@...> wrote: each day. Until I could not use spot collector at all. I removed all otherideas? My pc is now running at it normal speed and spot collector is working
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Tim Miller <k9us@...>
Hi Dave
Here is my spot collector setup: Prune DB on startup Prune entires older than 1 day Query op when dxkeeper log changes Need filter unworked or unconfirmed Spot update interval 1 min Web server enabled Max separation 1 min Max freq separation 1khz Max age 120 Make cumulative spot notes available is checked Freq filter 10 Age 60 Here is my setup for IRC: Host: irc.radiochat.org Channel: CQDX Caption: DX Summitt Username: XXXX First name: Tim Robot: DDX I have four dx clusters being watched and they seem to be working fine. I do have a wireless network that I use with my laptop which is running my DXlab programs. I also have a high speed Internet connection via satellite. I had IRC enable for over 6 months with no problems. It just been in the past month that my PC has come to a halt. Its so slow that you can do much of anything. Once I disabled IRC then everything Went back to normal speed. I don't think DX summitt is giving any new spots that the other 4 dx cluster don't know about so I can live without the IRC enabled. Just thought I might have something setup wrong. I am running Windows 2000 on an old laptop. It is a 500Mhz machine with 256 meg of ram. Sure appreciate your time and support. I love DXlab and don't turn on my radio without first startup DXlab. Tim K9US
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Dave AA6YQ
A "max separation in time" of one minute is going to result in multiple spot
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database entries for the same DX station; I would set this to at least 15 minutes. I typically run with a "max separation in frequency" of 2 khz, and a "max age of valid incoming spots" of 60 minutes; neither of these has any impact on performance. The symptoms you describe are of an increasingly memory-bound processor. I have run a few experiments here with IRC enabled and disabled, but have observed no signicant difference in SpotCollector's memory utilization. These weren't well-controlled, however, and there's the possibility that the Windows TCP/IP stack consumes a lot more memory when running IRC -- which wouldn't show up as SpotCollector's memory consumption. 73, Dave, AA6YQ
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From: dxlab@yahoogroups.com [mailto:dxlab@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of Tim Miller Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 7:37 PM To: dxlab@yahoogroups.com Subject: [dxlab] Re: spot collector was slowing down Hi Dave Here is my spot collector setup: Prune DB on startup Prune entires older than 1 day Query op when dxkeeper log changes Need filter unworked or unconfirmed Spot update interval 1 min Web server enabled Max separation 1 min Max freq separation 1khz Max age 120 Make cumulative spot notes available is checked Freq filter 10 Age 60 Here is my setup for IRC: Host: irc.radiochat.org Channel: CQDX Caption: DX Summitt Username: XXXX First name: Tim Robot: DDX I have four dx clusters being watched and they seem to be working fine. I do have a wireless network that I use with my laptop which is running my DXlab programs. I also have a high speed Internet connection via satellite. I had IRC enable for over 6 months with no problems. It just been in the past month that my PC has come to a halt. Its so slow that you can do much of anything. Once I disabled IRC then everything Went back to normal speed. I don't think DX summitt is giving any new spots that the other 4 dx cluster don't know about so I can live without the IRC enabled. Just thought I might have something setup wrong. I am running Windows 2000 on an old laptop. It is a 500Mhz machine with 256 meg of ram. Sure appreciate your time and support. I love DXlab and don't turn on my radio without first startup DXlab. Tim K9US
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Wow am I thankful I found this thread on SC. You guys may have solved all 5 or 6 of my problems I was having. Didn't know about the pruning thing, that file was humongous! Under control now.
Thanks so much!!!! -- 73, de ed -K0iL Omaha, NE
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Dave AA6YQ
+ AA6YQ comments below
Wow am I thankful I found this thread on SC. You guys may have solved all 5 or 6 of my problems I was having. Didn't know about the pruning thing, that file was humongous! Under control now. + Take a look at this article: <https://www.dxlabsuite.com/dxlabwiki/OptimizeSCPerformance> 73,
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