[WriteLog] Save problems

[Randy Thompson, K5ZD]

I noticed this as well on a PIII 500Mhz.  Something has made it slower than
it used to be.

You can control how often it does the save by a setting in the writelog.ini
file.  From the help file:

Set AutoSaveCount to the number of QSOs allowed between automatically saving
the log. Set this to -1 and WriteLog will not autosave. If you make no entry
here, WriteLog will auto-save after every 100 QSOs.

AutoSaveCount= -1

I have mine set to 5.  Now that it is slower, I may adjust to 10.

Read the Help page titled "File Backup" for more useful info on file saves
and how WL stores QSO data in a temporary file between saves.

Randy

> -----Original Message-----
> From: writelog-admin@contesting.com
> [mailto:writelog-admin@contesting.com]On Behalf Of Clive Whelan
> Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 00:29 AM
> To: writelog@contesting.com
> Subject: [WriteLog] Save problems
>
>
> At the weekend I experienced an annoying problem, bordering on
> the serious.
>
> viz. After the QSO total got to about 1500, I noticed the save
> operation taking longer, and locking out the QSO entry screen
> for a significant time.
>
>
> But the end as I was on 2,900 Qs ( as GW7X) the recovery of the
> QSO window was only just in time to log the next caller (
> sending at 28 wpm using the  W5XD keyer). It is predictable that
> at some point not much over 3000Qs, this would have become very
> serious, and limited QSO rate.
>
>
> Now bear in mind that I am only a pop gun using vertical
> antennas on all bands, and using a tribander I would have
> expected to gross well over 4,000 Qs. If that had happened in
> the contest I would have been mortified.
>
> Note also that I am only suing a 200Mhz Pentium with 32Mb of
> RAM. I do have a faster machine nearing completion/installation,
> but unfortunately this does not have the complement of ports
> that the old machine has, and I would dearly like to retain the
> old clonker, and not just for the occasions that I need to
> revert to TR ( DOS) for contests not supported by WL; perhaps as
> a networked machine in a multi/multi environment.
>
>
> Is there any way that the save operation can be speeded up,
> perhaps by caching in some way?
>
>
> tia
>
>
> 73
>
>
> Clive
> GW3NJW
> gw3njw@gw7x.org
> Contest Cambria-http://www.gw7x.org
>
>
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