[Trlog] Problem with "slowness" in the CQ160 Contest

[Mirko S57AD]

Did you use SMARTDRV or some other kind of disk cache?  On my old 486DX2 
clunker every version of TRLog was slow without SMARTDRV!

73  Mirko, S57AD

Ed Muns pravi:
>> I had an unusual problem with the CQ160 contest with TR 6.92. 
>> It was extremely slow. Granted, I run it on a prehistoric 
>> 486DX at 66 MHz, but that's what I run all the TR programs 
>> on, so the slowness is unique to this contest. It took almost 
>> two seconds to "process" the QSO. It was not a problem when I 
>> started as I was S&Ping and the wait didn't hold anything 
>> up.But later, I started CQing, and the wait was so long that 
>> I was delayed going back to the callers since the wait time 
>> to "digest" the last QSO was almost two seconds. I could not 
>> continue. Is there anything unique about this contest (such 
>> as sorting through a large number of potential multipliers or 
>> whatever)??
>>
>> This is the first time I have run into this in many years of using TR.
>>     
>
> Hey, Jim, how about running your PC on 220 volts along with your linear?!
>
> Seriously, I didn't do the CQ 160 this weekend, but I've encountered what
> you describe in other contests using the latest releases this past year.  I
> don't recall the details because it didn't cause me to operate different,
> like CQing for example, so I just pushed through it.
>
> Ed - W0YK
>
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