[WriteLog] writelog sticks with a lot of qsos

[Dean St. Hill]

Kostas

Not an expert by any means but I have had similar problems. Usually it is
related to the combination of memory, processor and other apps that might
be running on the same computer as well as possibly network load though I
cannot be 100% sure.

In my situation there was an issue with drivers and the operating system
hogging resources and not returning unused memory. This I believe is why
you see things get better after a reboot and get bad again eventually.

I would try not to run stuff I don't need and keep configurations simple.
Also if you have unused ports in your microham keyer device, you should try
deleting them - the virtual ports that are unused.

If you go through your systems systematically I'm sure you will find things
running that could/should be turned off when contesting.

In my case another culprit was anti-virus. I turn mine off during contests
but I also don't visit questionable sites while the system is not connected.

Hope you solve the problem. Writelog is great but of course windows does
have its issues.

CHeers

Dean - 8P6SH






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On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 5:27 PM, Kostas SV1DPI <sv1dpi at otenet.gr> wrote:

> I have noticed that writelog sticks momentarily sometimes. I have noticed
> it happening after 1000 qsos in the log. It happens on cw and rtty. On cw
> while I hit the function key, I am waiting for 1-2 seconds to start
> sending. On rtty it starts keying something like RY for a while and after
> 1-2 seconds the message starts. It happens after some hours. A fresh reboot
> corrects the problem for a while but it happens again. The result of this
> is that I use the wintest the last time for cw contests but I prefer
> writelog. The biggest problem is that I noticed it on rtty also the last
> time...
> Is anyone other who has noticed this behaviour?
> The keying device is microham in the first radio and winkey plus homemade
> interface to the 2nd radio (I don't think the problem is in hardware as it
> works fine with wintest and dx4win). Computers are in network and I use the
> 11.28 version but I have noticed it in all of the last versions. Computers
> in the shack are duo-core with 2gb memory and windows 7. A 3rd laptop is
> used for backup and runs the clusters.
> I can not reproduce it in my home computer. I believe this is why the
> computer is not so many hours on or the clusters spots are no so many. My
> first thought was that heavy spots from the clusters was the cause but on
> rtty I had not skimmer on and the spots were much lower. I talked it with a
> friend of mine who runs a much older version of writelog and a new computer
> with lot of memory and he has noticed it also. This is why I am asking for
> comments...
>
> 73 Kostas SV1DPI
>
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