Thanks Robert. I looked at things this morning with fresh eyes, and see that iStat Menus shows the load average on the machine has returned to the pre-upgrade idle levels (much of yesterday it was still elevated, probably from various things reindexing files and whatnot in the background). So I closed down any other applications running and opened just RUMlogNG and WSJT-X. Things seem to have moved back from "unusable" to "sluggish" - around a 1s delay from the time the transmit sequence should start to when audio is being generated, and maybe a 1s overrun from everyone else on the band stopping to when my station stops. Interestingly I see the "Decode" button flash at the time everyone else stops, but it's around a second later that audio stops flowing from my radio. It's as if the decode portion of the program and the UI are working "at speed" but whatever generates the audio to output just can't keep up, which seems to be corroborated by the fact that all of the stations I decode are marked with DT of less than .5. Regardless of it being a little behind, I was able to make a contact this morning, so at least I can continue to experiment and hopefully create some useful data for testing that can narrow down the problem.
On Sun, Dec 16, 2018 at 7:37 AM Robert Rearden <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Steve, > > I have seen no discernible difference in the "feel" or responsiveness of the > WSJT-X app between v1.9.1 under MacOS 10.13.16 and v2.0.0 under MacOS > 10.14.2. However, my station configuration is different from yours and other > apps installed on my iMac may be different from yours. I use an iMac (Late > 2015, 3.2 GHz Intel Core i5) with a Kenwood TS-480 via a SignaLink USB codec > and VOX rig control. Associated apps are MacLoggerDX 6.20 and JT-Bridge 3.0.1. > > Robert Rearden > [email protected] > ____________________ > > > > On Dec 15, 2018, at 1:02 PM, Steve Huston <[email protected]> wrote: > > Well I hope that wouldn't be the case, since it's not in the budget to > upgrade this machine any time soon so that would mean dropping the > mode(s) I've got the most enjoyment from in the last few years. > > I realized there was another update for 10.14.2 that hadn't been > applied, so I did that and restarted everything. Now it takes roughly > 11 seconds from when the start of the transmit cycle should be until > there's audio output to the SignaLink. Seems I've moved from "this > feels slow" to unusable now. Tried resetting the configuration to no > avail, will keep poking around looking for something concrete. > > > On Sat, Dec 15, 2018 at 12:05 PM John Nelson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi Steve, > > I re-booted my MacBook Pro (2018; 2.3 GHz Core i5) from my usual 10.13.6 to > 10.14.1 to look more closely at timings with 2.0.0_GA than I did earlier > with a previous test with rc4. > > I use a Kenwood TS-870s with USB audio link via SignaLink and CAT control > with a USB-Serial adapter with FTDI chipset. On Radio page “Rig" is set to > “Hamlib NET rigctl" > > In QSO with N8DOD I found that timing was spot-on without the delays you > observe. I wonder if 10.14 is more demanding on CPU speed than 10.12 which > the Mac Mini might not be able to provide? > > — John G4KLA_______________________________________________ > wsjt-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel > > > > > -- > > Steve Huston - W2SRH - Unix Sysadmin, PICSciE/CSES & Astrophysical Sci > Princeton University | ICBM Address: 40.346344 -74.652242 > 345 Lewis Library |"On my ship, the Rocinante, wheeling through > Princeton, NJ 08544 | the galaxies; headed for the heart of Cygnus, > (267) 793-0852 | headlong into mystery." -Rush, 'Cygnus X-1' > > > _______________________________________________ > wsjt-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel > > _______________________________________________ > wsjt-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel -- Steve Huston - W2SRH - Unix Sysadmin, PICSciE/CSES & Astrophysical Sci Princeton University | ICBM Address: 40.346344 -74.652242 345 Lewis Library |"On my ship, the Rocinante, wheeling through Princeton, NJ 08544 | the galaxies; headed for the heart of Cygnus, (267) 793-0852 | headlong into mystery." -Rush, 'Cygnus X-1' _______________________________________________ wsjt-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel
