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Title: Problem with TD speed!
Post by: maxies on October 05, 2007, 07:02:10 AM
Hi,

last week we played a tournament with 320 players!  At the begining TD worked fine, but after 3-4 hours the TD became more and more slowly, it took about more than 1 minute to bust one player out. We have 800 players in our database! Before we had tournaments with 150 players and TD worked fine until the end.

with greetings,

Claudine
Title: Re: Problem with TD speed!
Post by: Corey Cooper on October 05, 2007, 11:08:34 AM
It's all going to depend on the speed of your PC and how much memory you have.  It's possible (although I personally haven't observed it) for the TD to start to consume more and more memory (and thus probably start slowing down and eventually starve) due to memory leaks in Internet Explorer.  But again, I haven't seen this.

I'll try to do some testing to see if I can duplicate this.  It's a painful test to perform, as you can imagine, since I've got to run it over a period of hours...
Title: Re: Problem with TD speed!
Post by: maxies on October 12, 2007, 03:24:27 AM
Hello,

here the configuration from our notebbook:  1 GB Memory  AMD Turion 64 X2  TL 56 1,8 GHz  operation system: Windows Vista

I updated the memory to 2 GB, and i will test it with a simulation!

Next week we make a test with 700 players on a top machine, Dual Core 6750, 2 GB Memory...

I will you report the result soon

with greetings
 Claudine
Title: Re: Problem with TD speed!
Post by: Corey Cooper on October 12, 2007, 10:18:53 AM
When your tournaments get that large, I'd recommend running in "Simple mode", where you don't track players.  That may not be an option for you, but it will most definitely decrease the amount of work the software is doing, and should run at a more constant speed.

Title: Re: Problem with TD speed!
Post by: Trips on October 15, 2007, 10:42:07 AM
Ran a tourney with 38, timer ran fine and all other items ran fine also. When I tried to take someone out of the tourney with the x button it took 10 to 30 seconds to respond, then more time to assign seats.

To my knowledge nothing else running, at break I rebooted the system.
Title: Re: Problem with TD speed!
Post by: Corey Cooper on October 15, 2007, 12:17:29 PM
10 to 30 seconds to respond, in a tournament with only 38 players?  Send me the tournament file if that's the case.
Title: Re: Problem with TD speed!
Post by: Trips on October 15, 2007, 02:28:41 PM
How?
Title: Re: Problem with TD speed!
Post by: Corey Cooper on October 16, 2007, 11:09:12 AM
Attach it to an email to support@thetournamentdirector.net
Title: Re: Problem with TD speed!
Post by: Corey Cooper on October 16, 2007, 04:26:37 PM
Trips, I tried your tournament file and it works as expected on my machines.  Pressing X to bust a player out brings up the dialog pretty much instantly.  How fast and how much memory on the PC you are using?
Title: Re: Problem with TD speed!
Post by: Jarmy on October 16, 2007, 08:34:26 PM
You may want to scan these pc's for spyware and viruses.  I have seen machines grind and grind only to find them wrapped up with spyware.  Ad-aware on download.com works great and it is free.