Jeff, Normal. As I mentioned before, I have a 1.8 GHz lap top with 12 MB RAM and it ran 20 to 30 % CPU and about once a minute, it would peak at 100% in which case the SDR display would freeze. I upgraded to 1.5G RAM and it runs 10 to 20 % and never peaks above about 50%.
73, Chas W1CG At 10:02 AM 2/8/2007, you wrote: >For reference: my main SDR machine, which is a >non-laptop 3.2GHZ Pentium, runs my SDR without a >problem using only 512MB of memory, and it also has no >problem running debug versions under Visual Studio. >CPU utilization is somewhere in the range of 10 - 20%. > >Which is why I'm so surprised of the cyclical increase >to 60% that I see on my laptop. > >- Jeff > >--- Robert McGwier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > So far as I am concerned, 512 MB has not been > > sufficient memory for ANY > > Microsoft OS under pressure since Windows 98/ME. > > > > Bob > > > > > > Charles Greene wrote: > > > Jeff, > > > > > > 512 MB RAM is not enough to keep from paging > > memory to the HD. If > > > you bring up the windows task manager and watch > > the memory parameters > > > under Performance and try to correlate them with > > CPU %, it might give > > > you a clue. As to why other systems operate with > > 512 MB RAM, I don't > > > have any idea. My Lap Top doesn't page with 1.5 > > GB; 1 GB may be > > > enough. Whether this is the only problem, I > > doubt. > > > > > > 73, Chas > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > AMSAT Director and VP Engineering. Member: ARRL, > > AMSAT-DL, > > TAPR, Packrats, NJQRP, QRP ARCI, QCWA, FRC. ARRL SDR > > WG Chair > > "Taking fun as simply fun and earnestness in earnest > > shows > > how thoroughly thou none of the two discernest." - > > Piet Hine > > > > _______________________________________________ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/ FlexRadio Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/
