Thanks to everyone for letting me know of this "known problem". Certainly lessens my enthusiasm for DXbase, especially if it's been around from 2001.
73, Joe WL7M At 04:22 AM 2/10/2003, Phil Duff wrote: >At 16:51 2/9/2003 -0900, Joe - WL7M wrote: >>As a new guy, I'm experiencing a problem perhaps others have solved. The >>CPU use rater goes to about 95 percent when DXBase 2003 has been running >>for awhile - a few hours. I have an internet connection running, spotting >>DX stations. When I close the internet connection, the CPU rates drops >>back to about 4 percent. Anyone have an idea as to what is causing this >>drain on the resources? Makes it tough to use after awhile..... > >This is a known problem with DXbase. I have DXbase 2001 and experience >the same problem. >It happens if you have the Internet window running and lose the connection >but the window stays open. The open dropped connection window slams the >CPU to a continuous 100% load on my WinXP Home Ed running on an AMD Athlon >Thunderbird 1.2ghz CPU. That's a pretty good trick as I've never had any >amount of normal system load slam this CPU to continuous100%. Close the >internet window and the problem goes away.
