Fw: application slowing down

[Mark Talluto]

On Friday, August 23, 2002, at 11:54  AM, Rich Mooney wrote:

> I want to thank everyone, especially Dar, for their suggestions on this
> problem.  I've finally solved it but, I don't really understand why.  
> In my
> core serial communication handler I have some code which records 
> everything
> sent to or read from the serial port to a field.  This was actually the
> first thing I looked at when I found out about this problem because I 
> hadn't
> set any limit on how much info could be written to this field except 
> that I
> made sure it was emptied on startup.  This was obviously a problem for
> software that had to run 24/7.  I addressed this issue by having my 
> code
> delete the oldest entries if the field grew to more than 200 lines.  
> If I
> turn off this feature so that nothing is written to this field, my 
> software
> no longer slows down.  As I mentioned earlier, if I run the software 
> without
> being connected to the system the software doesn't slow down even if I 
> am
> writing to that field.  Here's a sample of what gets written to the 
> field if
> I'm not communicating with the system:
>
>
>
> Local refers to stuff I'm writing to the port while remote refers to 
> stuff
> I'm reading from the port.  It makes no earthly sense to me at all 
> that this
> should make a difference.  Anybody have any ideas?

Have you tried writing your log file to a custom property instead of a 
field?  I believe that writing this to a field has more of a penalty on 
the cpu.  You could then pull the data from the custom property and put 
it into a field to be printed over viewed when needed.

Just a thought...



Best regards,
Mark Talluto

http://www.canelasoftware.com