At 09:46 AM 8/1/2008, Brian Lloyd wrote: >I took a different approach. I dedicated a machine to running the 5K. >I stripped everything out of the OS that I could, including all >firewall functions, microsoft networking, eye-candy, even login. It >does not run email and it does not browse the web. The firewall is in >my router and I am careful to allow only such traffic as I know is >necessary, which is precious little in the case of my shack computer. >And while I have had my problems with the 5K, PowerSDR, and VAC, this >isn't one of them.
That is the approach I have taken for several years, I have a Dual Pentium III 1GHz machine and with that approach the software takes about 10% of the CPU and works just fine. The spikes in the utilization has gone away, it's just a steady line. But what I did was to create a second profile, so I have a normal profile and a skinny profile. The skinny profile is stripped of all networking, anti virus, and any service not required. If I need to put software while booted to it I put the software on a USB stick and install away. Cecil K5NWA www.softrockradio.org www.qrpradio.com "Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light." _______________________________________________ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/
