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Re: [ECS] ECST v4? David Mccoll Thu, 31 Dec 1998 02:20:01 -0800

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Mark,
I think these problems may be related. On some systems as the HD is accessed
the screen writes will hesitate. Wayne described the same symptoms I
experience with ECS writing back to C: from the currently logged drive D:.
Every time you press jump between editors F1, F2, F3 etc the w0.cfg on  C:
reflects changes even though you are on  D:.  If his configuration is very
large, would it not take a substantial amount of time to re-write the state
or config changes to the w0.cfg file ?

DAvid M


>No, Wayne is reporting a screen update problem, NOT a save problem
>
>David Mccoll wrote:
>>
>> Wayne,
>> That is the system writing the W0.cfg file to the C:. I have to get dumps
of
>> this off to Mark so that he can correct it. I found the same thing and
when
>> run off of a Ram drive it writes back to C:.
>>
>> David M
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Wayne Wittenberg <waynew@magicnet.net>
>> To: ecs-list@netbloc.com <ecs-list@netbloc.com>
>> Date: Wednesday, December 30, 1998 2:23 PM
>> Subject: [ECS] ECST v4?
>>
>> >  Is anybody else using ECST v4?  Since I have upgraded a few days ago,
I
>> >noticed that switching between the F1,F2 & F3 screens has gotten MUCH
>> >slower.  I am running on a 486/100 and the screen used to switch almost
>> >instantly.  Now I get a 'please wait...' message and have to watch the
>> >screen draw, almost line by line.  Mark hasn't noticed a problem, but
his
>> >slowest PC is 128 Mhz.
>> >  I just rebooted to see if I could speed things up and a LOT of items
had
>> >their values changed.  Including all my colors (which are not in ANY
>> events)
>> >and sunrise/set time, etc.  One item that I don't use or touch came up
>> >invalid.  No idea what happened, it was just a simple, controlled
reboot!
>> >  I have also noticed that my benchmark items dropped from 10.7
>> >passes/second to 8.4 passes/second when I switched from v3.4 to v4.  Has
>> >anybody else observed v4 being slower?
>> >
>> >
>> >
>
>--
>Mark Gilmore
>Omnipotence (Home Automation Software)
>omnip@usit.net
>http://www.usit.com/omnip
>

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