[Skimmertalk] Several hams experiencing major CWS slow down

[N4ZR]

I have implemented FT#-free zones in the band segments in my CW and RTTY 
ini files - helps a bunch!

73, Pete N4ZR
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On 7/28/2020 11:27 AM, Bob Wilson, N6TV wrote:
> Are they using CW Skimmer or Skimmer Server? Facebook?  Where?  They 
> should ask here.
>
> Failure to exclude FT8 (and FT4?) frequencies from RTTY and CW 
> spotting should help reduce the "decoder counts," which is the main 
> cause of high CPU utilization.
>
> Or by "slow down", do they mean the horizontal waterfall of CW Skimmer 
> moves more slowly?  That sounds like a video driver issue.
>
> 73,
> Bob, N6TV
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 6:21 AM Andrew O'Brien <k3ukandy at gmail.com 
> <mailto:k3ukandy at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     I have seen about 5-6 recent comments on Facebook from hams
>     successfully running CWS without problems in the past but in the
>     last few months, they experience major "slow down" of CWS .  Does
>     anyone know the source of this problem? The primary symptom is
>     decoding capacity reaching 100% even in low activity days. One
>     person said they recently increased their RAM from 8 to 16 and
>     then to 32 gigs but the slow down still happens.  System resources
>     reported by Windows do not indicate CPU or RAM is close to maxing
>     out.   It cant be related to any CWS updates, so I am wondering
>     about Windows updates.
>
>     Andy K3UK
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