My computer is running pretty heavy and I was taking a closer look in order to optimize the resources needed by skimming on 8 bands for FT8 and 16 on CW. A couple of things that I do not understand:

Why are there 1 GB of data collected in WAV files by the WSJT-X instances (see screen shot at https://photos.app.goo.gl/8tvXLn5JSWEoizWm8)? 

And each FT8 band causes 3 processes to run:

Wsjt-X.exe                     1 - 2 % CPU

jt9.exe                            1 % with spike at 20%, presumably when decoding happens?

cwsl_ssbwave.exe       1 - 3 % CPU

Is that adequate? Seems pretty power hungry. Is there anything that can be optimized?  Remember, I am running CW Skimmer as well, which also need 10 - 20 % of CPU.

See screen shot at https://photos.app.goo.gl/8tvXLn5JSWEoizWm8. 

I am running the computer with the Performance power profile. 

Would it help to optimize for background services or foreground apps?

Thanks

Andy

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