I have noted a variety of idiosyncrasies reported on this and other software user reflectors involving users of WinXP. While it is no doubt a more stable OS than Win9X, it's my impression that there are occasional adverse interactions that cannot be predicted. I have not experienced high CPU usage, but I run Win2K Pro and do not use the telnet feature of DXB. The contest logger I use for telnet pops a window if the connection is aborted. I don't know whether DXB does that too, but closing the window and reconnecting to the cluster sounds easy enough--the full package of DXBase 2003 is a fine product.
George W1EBI -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of FireBrick Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 2:12 PM To: Phil Duff; [email protected]; Joe - WL7M Subject: Re: [DXBase] CPU Use Nears 95 Percent Joe You may be jumping to conclusions. No one is sure it's a DXB problem. It seems to be a function of something called the MSoft MFC program. I've seen a error message listing this. But too brief to read or understand. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joe - WL7M" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Phil Duff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 12:25 PM Subject: Re: [DXBase] CPU Use Nears 95 Percent > Thanks to everyone for letting me know of this "known problem". Certainly > lessens my enthusiasm for DXbase, especially if it's been around from 2001. > > 73, > Joe > WL7M > > At 04:22 AM 2/10/2003, Phil Duff wrote: > >At 16:51 2/9/2003 -0900, Joe - WL7M wrote: > >>As a new guy, I'm experiencing a problem perhaps others have solved. The > >>CPU use rater goes to about 95 percent when DXBase 2003 has been running > >>for awhile - a few hours. I have an internet connection running, spotting > >>DX stations. When I close the internet connection, the CPU rates drops > >>back to about 4 percent. Anyone have an idea as to what is causing this > >>drain on the resources? Makes it tough to use after awhile..... > > > >This is a known problem with DXbase. I have DXbase 2001 and experience > >the same problem. > >It happens if you have the Internet window running and lose the connection > >but the window stays open. The open dropped connection window slams the > >CPU to a continuous 100% load on my WinXP Home Ed running on an AMD Athlon > >Thunderbird 1.2ghz CPU. That's a pretty good trick as I've never had any > >amount of normal system load slam this CPU to continuous100%. Close the > >internet window and the problem goes away. > > > _______________________________________________ > DXBase Reflector - Please visit us on the web at www.dxbase.com > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > To UNSUBSCRIBE please visit: > http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase > > _______________________________________________ DXBase Reflector - Please visit us on the web at www.dxbase.com - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - To UNSUBSCRIBE please visit: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase
