[Skimmertalk] Several hams experiencing major CWS slow down

[Andrew O'Brien]

and... I'm talking about CWS, not the server. Mostly a decode slowdown and
not a video driver issue.

Andy

On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 11:54 PM Andrew O'Brien <k3ukandy at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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