RE: Slow performing xywrite

["Ambos, Paul" PAMBOS@xxxxxxxx]

I have had sporadic laggy performance under XY4 and XyWin under an NT4.0
system when either writing to or reading from network drives. (The problem
seems to have gone away in the last two or three months, but the IT people
have done so much surgery on servers it is hard to tell what might have been
the exact cause or whetehr indeed it has been really fixed.) Do your users
boot XY3.58 exclusively locally, or might reading a networked file on
startup be causing the problem?

Regards,

Paul Ambos
pambos@xxxxxxxx


> -----Original Message-----
> From:	OHammond@xxxxxxxx [SMTP:OHammond@xxxxxxxx]
> Sent:	Friday, May 25, 2001 12:03 AM
> To:	xywrite@xxxxxxxx
> Subject:	Slow performing xywrite
>
> Hiya people
>
> Just outlining a problem we are experiencing here at work at the moment.
> As
> some background, we have approx 150 users using Xywrite 3.58B on PII's
> (mainly 266) running NT4.0 and having between 32 and 128MB ram.
>
> The problem we are having is that some users are complaining that Xywrite
> operates very slow sometimes when they start the program. The cursor is
> very laggy in its movements and text displays a considerable time after
> the
> keys are struck. This problem is happening on some peoples PC's and not
> others, as well as not happening all of the time.
>
> One thing that seems to work is to minimise the program, then maximise
> again. This seems to get rid of the lagginess that the program was having
> and it runs fine. Other people have suggested changing the cursor
> size????
> as a fix, as well as changing (youll love this) the mouse scroll rate. As
> both of these methods require minimising the app first, I think we could
> be
> able to ignore them. We have tried running with no other programs running,
> with other programs running, after a reboot etc but still cannot put our
> finger on it.
>
> I was just wondering what could be causing this lacklustre performance,
> and
> why would minimising and maximising the window overcome it?
> Has anyone else experienced similar problems, and if so what did you do to
> correct it?
>
> Any suggestions or ideas would be greatly appreciated
>
> Cheers
> Owen