[SD-User] sdi and wine

[Ian Greenshields]

I have also seen this effect on some computers / distributions. I have no
problem on the Asus eeePC (701) running the stock Xandros and Wine 0.9.58 -
SD runs fine & is fast enough for normal CW contest operation. I have
another PC at home which runs DSL (a stripped Debian), also with Wine 0.9.58
and it is very slow, almost to the point of being unusable.

I don't know what the solution is, other than try a different distro. All
recent versions of Wine (last 2 years or so) seem to run SD the same & a
faster processor doesn't seem to noticeably improve things either.

The only real solution is to compile SD for Linux - if PowerBasic CC  had a
Linux compiler......

73 Ian G4FSU


2009/6/28 Anders Eidenvall <anders at eidenvall.se>

> 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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