[WriteLog] Save problems

[Marcelo]

I also had this problem, as ZY5A.

I thought this was related to the processor being busy with CW keying, but 
now I see that you also had this delay with the W5XD keyer.

The saving was finished just in time for typing the new entry.

73īs

Marcelo, PY1KN



At 03:11 27/11/2001 +0000, you wrote:
>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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