[SD-User] sdi and wine

[Anders Eidenvall]

Thanks for the help and your interest.

I have tried your suggestion and a normal terminal window is working OK when
SDI is running in wine. Nothing unusual such as slow operation can be seen.

What I can see is that SDI is consuming a lot of CU cycles during this time.
As an example:

If I enter a call in the call field and then hits backspace a few times to
get rid of the call, SDI is consuming 100% of my 2.3GHz CPU for at least 5
seconds. I can also see that when SDI is just idling in wine, bursts of 100%
CPU-cycles are consumed for about one second every 5 seconds. They disappear
when I close wine.

About a possible regression bug, I have tried this with both the stable wine
release and with the latest development release with the same result.

Anders Eidenvall


2009/6/28 Bill Gearhiser <thegear at aol.com>

>  I've used SD and wine on Fedora and definitely did not see that problem.
> It was not very fast, but it didn't have any pathological behaviors like you
> mention.
>
> You might want to try this: while SD is running inside wine, open a
> terminal and issue some commands (ls, pwd, ...) to see whether they
> misbehave in the same way. If so, something is stealing CPU cycles, and we
> can investigate that (ps -auxw, on some Linux/Unix/Solaris systems). If not,
> then wine is the culprit. It could be a "regression bug", in which a fix for
> something introduces a new problem. I don't know what version of wine I was
> using, and that system doesn't exist any more.
>
>  Bill Gearhiser
>
>
>
>  -----Original Message-----
> From: Anders Eidenvall <anders at eidenvall.se>
> To: sd-user at contesting.com
> Sent: Sun, Jun 28, 2009 5:00 pm
> Subject: [SD-User] sdi and wine
>
>  Hello
>
> I am preparing for the summer IOTA-contest and this year I planned to get
>
> rid of the paper logging so I am trying to use SDI under wine on ubuntu 8.10
>
> and 9.04 under wine.
>
>
> Things seems to be working but the reaction to typing is v e r y slow. It
>
> takes about 3 seconds from the call entry untill the cursor stops at the
>
> serial number entry field. After the ENTER to log the QSO it takes nearly 5
>
> seconds until the QSO shows up in the QSO list and an additional 3 seconds
>
> until the cursor is located in the call entry field again. During all the
>
> time delays, the cursor can be seen jumping around.
>
>
> I have tried this both on a eeePC 900 MHz and on my stationary Acer. Both
>
> computers react the same. I have also tried both the stable wine release
>
> 1.0.1... and the latest development release with the same behavour.
>
>
> Anyone seen this before or know how to correct it.
>
>
> 73 de SM5EFX, Anders Eidenvall, SF2X on EU135
>
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