I've got problems with speed in PCB under NT 4 service pack er whatever (6 I
think) and am experiencing similar problems to those already expressed i.e.
long delays on every action on a PCB ( more noticable on designs with
large amount of primitives). When monitored with NT task manager
it was observed that for every action I did on a design e.g. click
on a component a memory page fault occurred which caused a lot of
memory space swapping i.e. lots of disk activity and 2-4 seconds delay.
(depending on the size of the windows swap file).
This is a complete pain and mystery cos it doesn't happen on other peoples
PCs and effect not noticed on 98 or 2000. Any ideas anybody?
P.S. is there any input from Protel regarding exchange of ideas under
the SDK pre-release non disclosure thingy because it is a complete pain
having to remain silent on the subject when there is knowledge to
disseminate to all and sundry with the hopeful effect of prompting useful
input
of server ideas and code from the community . Hello Protel !!! Please
clarify this situation it is to your own good.
----- Original Message -----
From: Mike Reagan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Protel EDA Forum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2001 2:17 AM
Subject: Re: [PEDA] Re[2]: Speed problem with Protel 99SE in PCB editor !
> Brad,
> I was also experiencing long delays with NT 4 SP 5. I unloaded NT and
> jumped to 98 and my delay went away. I had been using NT for the past 4-
5
> years but have found better performance with Win 98. One of these days
I
> will try one of the newer generation OS's.
>
>
> Mike Reagan
> EDSI
> Frederick MD
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Brad Velander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: 'Protel EDA Forum' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, June 22, 2001 7:36 PM
> Subject: Re: [PEDA] Re[2]: Speed problem with Protel 99SE in PCB editor !
>
>
> > Phil,
> > thanks for the tip, but does this effect NT that you know? I am
> > running NT4 so I am skeptical that your observations may hold similar
> across
> > to NT. If you have any suggestions for NT I will try them. For now I
will
> > query my MIS support person on this type of issue, see if he knows any
> > tricks to check out.
> > I had a couple of times tried shutting down everything that wasn't
> > essential but I still had quite a list of stuff in my NT Task list which
I
> > had no idea what effect they may have if I shut them down so they stayed
> > running. The one thing that I can report is that according to the Task
> > Manager only Protel is taking any significant resources, high high 90's,
> > every once in a while something elses flickers briefly to 1, 2, - 4% CPU
> > usage.
> >
> > Brad Velander,
> > Lead PCB Designer,
> > Norsat International Inc.,
> > #300 - 4401 Still Creek Dr.,
> > Burnaby, B.C., V5C 6G9.
> > Tel. (604) 292-9089 direct
> > Fax (604) 292-9010
> > website www.norsat.com
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Phillip Stevens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Sent: Friday, June 22, 2001 4:32 PM
> > > To: Protel EDA Forum
> > > Subject: [PEDA] Re[2]: Speed problem with Protel 99SE in PCB editor !
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Even better, at least in Win98, is "msinfo32.exe".
> > > Software environment, running tasks, will show you what is running.
> > > "Startup Programs", will show you where autostart programs got
> > > loaded from. (registry, startup, ect.)
> > >
> > > "System Hooks" will tell you if anything has "hooked" into (for
> > > example handling mouse and keyboard events). Hey Brad, I
> > > wonder if the
> > > pregnant pause you see might be caused by a secondary program
> > > having hooked
> > > the keyboard on you? I did see a case the other day where it
> > > looked like
> > > a popular virus scan utility had hooked the mouse and keyboard... just
> > > curious.
> > >
> > > I believe there is a similar version of a W2k utility which has
> > > similar functionality, or this is a sub set of another app in W2k.
> > >
> > > ---Phil
> >
>
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