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

[kd4d at comcast.net]

I noticed no slowdowns with 9.93 on an old Pentium II computer. 
I am running "smartdrv" which is a disk cache. I suspect that 
smartdrv may solve your problem. Please try it and let us know. 

73, 

Mark 


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ed Muns" <w0yk at msn.com> 
To: "Jim George" <n3bb at mindspring.com> 
Cc: trlog at contesting.com 
Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2009 11:45:39 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern 
Subject: Re: [Trlog] Problem with "slowness" in the CQ160 Contest 

> 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.