[Skimmertalk] Several hams experiencing major CWS slow down

[Andrew O'Brien]

The whole FT free zones issue  never even occurred to me.  I'll take a look
and see if this is indeed the issue.

The Facebook CWS page is at https://www.facebook.com/groups/cwskimmer/

Andy K3UK

On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 11:51 AM N4ZR <n4zr at comcast.net> wrote:

> 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> 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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