Party performance problems - Computer too slow?

[mondonman]

I used to 12-table Stars while running PT and PAHUD without experiencing any performance problems.

Now at Party (running PT, PAHUD and MTH) even 6-tabling has become a big problem.
Tables are sometimes frozen for several seconds after popping on top, PAHUD needs 1-2 seconda for drawing the numbers and the buttons appear after that.

I am using a AMD Athlon 2000XP+, 1.67 Ghz and 256 MB Ram.

Sorry for being unspecific. I am a hardware donk. Any ideas?

[SamIAm]

Define "running" PT. Are you importing? That's likely the highest processor drag. How often are you importing?
-Sam

[mondonman]

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Define "running" PT. Are you importing? That's likely the highest processor drag. How often are you importing?
-Sam

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Every 3 minutes

[jukofyork]

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Now at Party (running PT, PAHUD and MTH)...

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I am using a AMD Athlon 2000XP+, 1.67 Ghz and 256 MB Ram.

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256MB is just barely enough to run XP and my guess is that you need more memory (~512MB or more) to run all those apps.

Is your hard disk light flashing on/off alot when you get the slowdown problem? If so, then this hints that alot of memory is getting paged in/out of your swapfile due to the lack of physical memory.

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[mondonman]

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Now at Party (running PT, PAHUD and MTH)...

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I am using a AMD Athlon 2000XP+, 1.67 Ghz and 256 MB Ram.

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256MB is just barely enough to run XP and my guess is that you need more memory (~512MB or more) to run all those apps.

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If that´s the case how come everything works fine on Stars?
MTH alone does not make the difference, I shut it down and had the same problems with Party.

[jukofyork]

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Now at Party (running PT, PAHUD and MTH)...

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I am using a AMD Athlon 2000XP+, 1.67 Ghz and 256 MB Ram.

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256MB is just barely enough to run XP and my guess is that you need more memory (~512MB or more) to run all those apps.

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If that´s the case how come everything works fine on Stars?

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I think the Stars client is possibly coded better and is more optimised (it uses hardly any CPU time too, as opposed to Party which hogs near 100% on most systems when multitabling).

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MTH alone does not make the difference, I shut it down and had the same problems with Party.

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I think MTH is prolly the least likely app to be causing you problems, with the party client most likely the culprit and PT being a close second (it can end up using a heck of a lot of memory if you do a big import).

FWIW, I have almost the same system as you describe (with only a 1.4GHz CPU, but with 512MB of RAM) and I used to be able to 9-table Party (with resized tables) + PT + PAHUD + a few other helped apps/scripts without too many problems.

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