I certainly did not meant to impugn the quality of the functions of DXBase 2003 - BUT - it DOES lessen the enjoyment of the program when the CPU is tied up at nearly 100%. Seems others have had similar experiences, and the issue has been around since the DXBase 2001 release. I have a work around - using DXTELNET, I can send spots to DXBase 2003, but it certainly would be nice to use the built-in functions without this happening. DXTELNET hasn't seemed to cause this reaction, but I'll be watching to see if it does.
73, Joe WL7M At 10:25 AM 2/10/2003, George Harlem, W1EBI wrote: >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.
