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Jim Cooper
 

On 31 Mar 2020 at 3:37, Uwe wrote:

I've experienced that it also
might help to increase process priority of wsjtx.exe and jt9.exe
Yes ... I was having a problem on my basic pc
when using Flex 6600 with SDR and DAX and
all the FT8 stuff running. Set the priority to
High on both and now almost always decodes.

w2jc
Philip Rose
 

 

Also keep an eye on memory usage. If that gets to 90% or so then your programs will start swapping in and out of memory.

 

73 and stay safe, Phil GM3ZZA

 

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From: Uwe
Sent: 31 March 2020 11:38
To: WSJTX@groups.io
Subject: Re: [WSJTX] Only decoding every other 15 second time slot.

 

Hi Al,
Looks very much like CPU load is going to 100%. You should do the following.
(1) Monitor CPU load continously with task manager or with tools like System Explorer. Likely decoding stops when CPU load went to 100 %.
(2) Identify the process(es) which causes high processor load. Under Windows after an update often processes like mscorsvw.exe need more than 50 % CPU load, and that such processes are active for many hours.
(3) As a temporarily workaround at WSJT-X reduce under "Decode" sensitivity to "Fast".
(4) I've experienced that it also might help to increase process priority of wsjtx.exe and jt9.exe. You can do it within task manager with a right-click, although settings there are only valid until the next booting. With the freeware tool "System Explorer" you can let such settings be remembered. Helped a lot at my PC.
Please contact me if you need more details.
73 de Uwe, DG2YCB

 


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73 Phil GM3ZZA
Uwe, DG2YCB
 

Hi Al,
Looks very much like CPU load is going to 100%. You should do the following.
(1) Monitor CPU load continously with task manager or with tools like System Explorer. Likely decoding stops when CPU load went to 100 %.
(2) Identify the process(es) which causes high processor load. Under Windows after an update often processes like mscorsvw.exe need more than 50 % CPU load, and that such processes are active for many hours.
(3) As a temporarily workaround at WSJT-X reduce under "Decode" sensitivity to "Fast".
(4) I've experienced that it also might help to increase process priority of wsjtx.exe and jt9.exe. You can do it within task manager with a right-click, although settings there are only valid until the next booting. With the freeware tool "System Explorer" you can let such settings be remembered. Helped a lot at my PC.
Please contact me if you need more details.
73 de Uwe, DG2YCB
Al Yerger <ayerger@...>
 

Hi,
I have been chasing several problems that have cropped up on WSJT-X/FT-8.  One that I have isolated is; when the FT-8 frequency is very crowded the program takes several seconds to decode all of the stations.  When this overlaps into the next 15 second window the next time segment does not decode.  The the next one decodes properly followed by no decode.  This essentially gives me every other 15 second slot.  I have tried running the task manager to see if something is hogging the processor but when the task manager is open, WSJT doesn’t decode anything.
 
Meinberg is installed and working ok.
 
Everything was working fine until a short while ago.  Probably something to do with a Window's update.  Any suggestions?
 
Thanks,
Al K2ATY
 

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