I've had similar results with LTSpice, by default it tosses the simulations results to the current working directory. Fortunately, you can tell LTSpice to use a specific temp folder for simulation results.
On Sun, Feb 5, 2017 at 7:42 PM, Didier Juges <shali...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yes, I noticed that before. > I have a number of tools that don't like running off a Dropbox folder, > including several software development tools for starter. Too many files > opened at the same time. > Don't assume that because it looks like a normal folder, it works like one, > even though for many things, it does work remarkably well. > > On Feb 5, 2017 2:32 PM, "John Ackermann N8UR" <j...@febo.com> wrote: > > > So I was clever and decided to log some PPS data to a folder within my > > "Dropbox" folder. Strange results followed... the whole system just > bogged > > down, and even fairly slow serial data dropped characters. > > > > It turns out that the culprit was the Dropbox daemon continuously trying > > to sync the file as it changed every second. It didn't manifest as CPU > > overload or anything obvious; the problem was apparently thrashing in the > > I/O system. Once I started dumping the data to a "normal" directory, the > > problem went away. (This was on Linux, by the way). > > > > So, a lesson learned -- don't stream unbuffered data, even at a low rate, > > into a sync'd folder! > > > > John > > _______________________________________________ > > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/m > > ailman/listinfo/time-nuts > > and follow the instructions there. > > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/ > mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
