[WT-support] R: Advanced setup network for M2

[Claudio Veroli]

Hi Larry and Olivier
thanks for all the suggestions.

SRI Larry for copying your call wrong I will lose 3 more contacts ...HI
I wrote mu second mail before reading your answer.
Here are some more details about our setup:

ANTIVIRUS o Real Time Analysis
Yes I forgot to tell you about Antivirus. I leaved NOD32 active in many PC
It seemed very light but when the problem start it was our first thought and
we disabled
NOD32 in all PCs. No changes happened.

>As Larry, my guess is that hidden process is silently analyzing each
>file a software access to. This can be an anti-virus, anti-spyware ...
>or even a virus or spyware! One clue is that only some of your computers
>in the LAN were affected by this problem.

PC and network is permanetly installed and dedicated.
No internet connection in Monte Capra so no Firewall or Spyware  installed.
Only a simple Antivirus as NOD32 but I cal easily unistall it just to avoid
any permanent or silent use of the CPU.
Anyway I will take a look to the task manager to see if there is any active
process
using excessive CPU.
Next weekend I will repeat the CQWW setup with the complete log open and I
will
 send SH/DX 5000. And see what it will happen and let you know.

>BTW, is the HD formatted in NTFS, FAT32? No compressed file system, or
>network shares around?
NTFS recently defragmented with Windows 2000 pro SP4

> We currently use 5 x PII 300 MHz / 64 MB (!) at FY5KE and we do not
> suffer any slowing down. And be sure we use WT at its full capabilities,
> with all data updated as-we-type ;-)

Good to know this means I have only to find the problem in my network or PC
setup
and not to upgrade hardware.

REORDER QSOs by time
>The easiest way is to merge your log with it self. Meaning that you hv
>to use the merge function, with your log as master log, and your log
>(again) as a second one. Wise users backup files before proceeding !

Thanks I will do this way.

Thanks for now I will let you know  further progresses.

73 de Claudio I4VEQ




-----Messaggio originale-----
Da: support-bounces at win-test.com
[mailto:support-bounces at win-test.com]Per conto di Laurent HAAS - F6FVY
Inviato: martedì 6 novembre 2007 15.10
A: support at win-test.com
Oggetto: Re: [WT-support] Advanced setup network for M2


Hi Claudio

Claudio Veroli a écrit :

> Congrats to all developers particularly to Olivier F5MZN and F5FVY. We
> really like this software.

My callsign is F6FVY (N + 1) - Just kidding ;-)

> Only one problem on Saturday evening when we got around 6000 qsos in log.
> The PCs on the 2 running stations
> become very slow with problems moving cursor and entry characters.

(snip)

> Here is our PC setup:
>
> PC are all Pentium III or IV with at least 256 Mb RAM OS Windows2000 SP4
>
> 2 PCs on Run1 (one on the running station + one on the support station)
> 2 PCs on Run2 (idem)
> 1 PCs on Mult1
> 1 PC  on Mult2
> 1 PC  used as Monitor or silent backup
> 1 PC  is dedicated to PCL with TNC2 and time sync (P III 256Mb )
>
> Network HUB is only 10 Mb.
> No RFI on the network.
> Sync logs on the network was disable for all PCs.
> We normally use the following windows RADIO1, STATUS, Packet
announcements,
> Partial check, N+1, Exchange guessing.
> All PC are connect to a radio and frequency is showed in STATUS.
>
> Is there any possibility to filter spots on the PC dedicated to PCL and to
> pass on the network only multipliers or new contacts?

No, except if you set filters on the DX cluster server it self, but it
is not "interactive" with WT, of course.

> Any others suggestions for the network setup? OR should I upgrade my
> hardware ?

We currently use 5 x PII 300 MHz / 64 MB (!) at FY5KE and we do not
suffer any slowing down. And be sure we use WT at its full capabilities,
with all data updated as-we-type ;-)

This slowdown is totally abnormal with your current configuration,
especially if the sync was disabled !

Before going any further, please check that you don't have *any*
anti-virus of some sort installed and running on those computers.
Especially if they have some sort of "real-time analysis" which is
triggered everytime the OS does access to the file system. It
considerably slows down the disk access in our case, where several files
are simultaneously updated for every received spot.

Check also that you don't have any "automatic and silent" Windows update
engaged. That might impact the responsivness and file system access, for
low-end machines.

> POST CONTEST
>
> I saw some QSOs out of order in time and this affects the 8 band change
> controls. Is there any possibility to reorder QSOs by time?

The easiest way is to merge your log with it self. Meaning that you hv
to use the merge function, with your log as master log, and your log
(again) as a second one. Wise users backup files before proceeding !

73

Larry - F6FVY

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