I noticed no slowdowns with 9.93 on an old Pentium II computer.
I am running "smartdrv" which is a disk cache. I suspect that
smartdrv may solve your problem. Please try it and let us know.
73,
Mark
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ed Muns" <w0yk@msn.com>
To: "Jim George" <n3bb@mindspring.com>
Cc: trlog@contesting.com
Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2009 11:45:39 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: Re: [Trlog] Problem with "slowness" in the CQ160 Contest
> I had an unusual problem with the CQ160 contest with TR 6.92.
> It was extremely slow. Granted, I run it on a prehistoric
> 486DX at 66 MHz, but that's what I run all the TR programs
> on, so the slowness is unique to this contest. It took almost
> two seconds to "process" the QSO. It was not a problem when I
> started as I was S&Ping and the wait didn't hold anything
> up.But later, I started CQing, and the wait was so long that
> I was delayed going back to the callers since the wait time
> to "digest" the last QSO was almost two seconds. I could not
> continue. Is there anything unique about this contest (such
> as sorting through a large number of potential multipliers or
> whatever)??
>
> This is the first time I have run into this in many years of using TR.
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