[Virtualacorn-list] VRPC being sluggish.

[Dave Symes]

In article <667f94eb53.pnyoung at pnyoung.ormail.co.uk>,
   Peter Young <pnyoung at ormail.co.uk> wrote:
> On 20 Mar 2014  "David J. Ruck" <druck at druck.org.uk> wrote:

> > On 16/03/2014 20:39, Peter Young wrote:
> >> Recently, when away from home, and today when I had a transient
> >> problem with my main ARMini machine, I've been using VRPC as my main
> >> computer for e-mailing. I've found a lot of time that the response to
> >> the keyboard is very slow, and sometimes a relatively high proportion
> >> of keystrokes don't get registered. There's also sometimes a sluggish
> >> response to menu clicks.

> > Check that you haven't got CallWin32 utility installed in VRPC, as
> > sometimes you can get two idle cpu returning tasks running on RISC OS
> > which plays hell with it. I cant remember the task name, but look for
> > two of the same name in RISC OS Task Manager , mode task section.

> Many thanks, but VRPC seems to be a lot more responsive since I 
> increased the processor priority (see upthread).

> I do have CallWin32.dat and CallWin32.dll in the plugins folder of 
> VirtualRPC-SE of VirtualAcorn (can't remember why!), but no trace of 
> it, or any duplicated entries in the RISC OS Task Manager. However, 
> that's all rather above my head!

> Best wishes,

> Peter.

Yes I have that directory containing the above noted, but nothing showing
in Tasks manager.

There's also a CallWin32 module in my VRPC-Adjust SA installs.

?

Dave

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Dave Triffid