[Trlog] Version 6.88 Slowdown Question

[Paul Kirley]

At 07:53 AM 8/28/08 -0700, Tree wrote:
>> The problem was noticed on the air, both with a radio interfaced and with no radio interfaced.  
>> 
>> The experiments were conducted off the air without a radio.  The experiments should be easy to replicate.
>
>Are you running a disk cache that you know of?  Sounds like SMARTDRV might 
>fix this.  TR does use disk overlays and if they actually do come off the
>disk - it can slow things down.  Different versions might have different
>amounts of disk activity.

I'm using pure DOS 6.22 (no Windows available on my logging machine), but was not using SMARTDRV for TRLog--although I had menus set up in CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT that used SMARTDRV in other situations.

So I copied the SMARTDRV line (loaded high) into the TRLog section of the AUTOEXEC.BAT file and tried again.  Now there doesn't seem to be a slowdown, neither in the simple ARCI experiment that I described earlier nor in a more realistic imaginary event (with the radio interfaced but set to zero output).

End-of-contest shutdown now also goes much more quickly, although that was never a problem.  Hopefully there will be no negative side effects of SMARTDRV; loading it high prevented a hit on QSO memory.

Thanks for the help.

73, Paul W8TM