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Re: [ECS] ECST 4.0 Dan Carrington Thu, 11 Feb 1999 16:00:31 -0800

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I don't know.  I think that speed is relative to the interfaces you
have.  Personally, I get about 2 passes per second.  I take a variable
and add 1 to it each time that ECS does an event pass.  Then the second
reaches 2, I have it stick the count in another variable and then zero
itself.  I also average this count into another item to get a long term
average.  I get 128 at the moment.  That is passes per minute so it
would be about 2 per second (128/60).  I am on a 33mhz 486 with IR
Master, Prarie Digital 40, Micro-redac 16, Vision Plus alarm, Zoom 14.4
modem, and phone blaster.  For serious editing, I disable ECS event
processing and things go so much faster to edit.  When done, I just
enable processing again.  

Dan



herronf@us.ibm.com wrote:
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> I am still using ECST 4.0.  My biggest frustration is the speed is so slow.
> Every time I create a new item or change an event and hit F5, I have to
> wait while it says writing line 1000, writing line 2000 etc.  Deleting
> items is very slow.  My passes per second went from the teens to 7-8.
> The thing runs the house fine, just dread having to make changes now.  That
> used to be one of ECS big selling points to me.  If your ever used
> TimeCommander or ES-1400e where each time you had to download your schedule
> into the"box", ECS used to seem like a dream come true.
> MY RAM Drive is always blank.  Contol S out to dos, and Dir D: and it has
> no files.
> I had the message count (of text messages) jump to 65,5XX, but I beleive
> that is fixed??
> 
> I'd be so happy if I could get the speed of 3.4 back.

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