Hi Eddie,
no problems with freezes from that SpecLab version here so
far.
But I do find that Windows10 is not quite kosher
regarding continuous operation. I'm running the slow VLF
stuff on a convertible laptop under Win10 Home. Within a
week or so after a restart, memory usage gradually creeps
up from ~ 45 % to 85+%. At that stage, the PC becomes
practically inoperable and needs to be rebooted. If I can
still manage to shut down SpecLab instances cleanly,
saving configuration data can take many minutes instead of
a couple of seconds. Such things never occured on the
faithful XP machine which is still hosting the LF and
Loran grabbers.
To prevent a loss of weeks and months of slowly aquired
spectrograms, you could enable SpecLab's file-buffer,
which should preserve screen content through a restart
(see attached).
Best 73,
Markus
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Von: g3zjo
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An: rsgb_lf_group
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Verschickt: So, 5. Mrz 2017 22:50
Betreff: Re: VLF: Tonite...
On 05/03/2017 15:48, DK7FC wrote:
> Then, during the week, i would like to try to send my
full callsign to
> Eddie in DFCW-6000. It could work, he can see me day
and night it
> seems :-)
Yes that will be worth a try, I should have a stable set up
ready, I
have had a display freeze on my EbNaut instance so I shall
miss the
Sunday night transmission.
I think Speclab v2.92 b02 suffers from display freeze, I
used to run 8
to 10 instances without problems now the 4th instance seems
to produce
problems and one of the instances will or may freeze, not
necessarily
the last instance or an intensive (20uHz or 5uHz) one
either. I wonder
if anyone else is experiencing this.
I have seen frozen displays still exporting updated screen
captures too,
a case of WYSINWYG (what you see is not what you get).
It is a very difficult thing to test because of course I
don't want to
induce it, the processor load is only 15% with 4 instances
running.
73 Eddie G3ZJO
