Logos 4 got so sluggish nowadays that almost I can't use it.
Is my computer the culprit or the Logos 4?
AMD Phenom X4 9650 Quad core process, Win 7, 8 gig. 64 gig SSD.
what seems to be the problem?
It appears your computer has plenty of muscle, but I have read about earlier SSD having performance issues after a while. It affects smaller capacity SSDs more than larger ones and Samsung controllers seem to be really bad.
Are you running the current Logos Beta?
Hi Bokman,
you may want to try some of the ideas here in this wiki page: Speeding up Logos 4 responses
Also take a look at this wiki page: Logos Running Slowly
It's not a beta.
It seems taking some time, about 5 minutes, to be ready fully after the initial opening of the program.
I got "not responding" messages then; now it works ok.
I guess it might be the cause that I have the library in other hard drive. I moved the Logos library fold from C drive to other drive to give some room to 64 SSD C drive.
@ Steve,
Thanks for your tip!
I'll look into that!.
That would not account for the 5 minutes; HD's are not that slow!
Enable logging http://wiki.logos.com/Diagnostic_Logging. If it occurs again upload the logos4.log.
Wiki has Mac Troubleshooting => Slow Performance includes:
May 2009 SSD performance article => http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9132668/Analysis_SSD_performance_is_a_slowdown_inevitable_
Noted CPU was introduced on 27 Mar 2008 => http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/K10/AMD-Phenom%20X4%209650%20-%20HD9650WCJ4BGH%20%28HD9650WCGHBOX%29.html
Looking at a CPU intensive benchmark comparison, appears AMD Phenom X4 9650 is a tad faster than Logos 4 recommended system => http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/desktop-cpu-charts-q3-2008/Linux-Gzip,842.html
Currently Logos 4 is a 32 bit application; personally downloaded free RAMDisk software and configured a 640 MB R: RAM Disk for temporary file use by my Windows 7 standard user. After changing user environment variables (TEMP and TMP), Logos 4 searches are now writing temporary files to RAM instead of disk; RAMDisk configuration includes writing to/from disk when restarting computer so temporary files have persistence across reboots.
Note: my RAM disk has 112 MB of files after several months of use. Also tend to have ~3 GB of RAM used as cache by 64 bit Windows 7 on a laptop with 8 GB of RAM installed.
Likewise partitioned my hard drive so the fastest partition has custom Logos 4 installation and Windows 7 page file => http://community.logos.com/forums/p/24555/295852.aspx#295852
Keep Smiling [:)]
Brother toughski,
Thanks you for sharing a great tip for making Logos 4 running faster.
I'll try it.
By the way, what RAMDisk software do you use?
Any recommendation?
Thanks in advance.
I have installed this program. To get it to work with L4 do I need to do anything special? You mentioned changing the TEMP and TMP variables? Can you give me a few details for setting this up so that it speeds up L4? I appreciate your help!
I have a C:\ disk drive formatted for NTFS
After looking at this I am assuming that I should just change the environment variable Temp and tmp to point to the ramdisk (ie. R:\Ramdisk). Also do I use the fat 32 setting? Do I check the "create Temp directory" checkbox?
Currently Logos 4 is a 32 bit application; personally downloaded free RAMDisk software and configured a 640 MB R: RAM Disk for temporary file use by my Windows 7 standard user. After changing user environment variables (TEMP and TMP), Logos 4 searches are now writing temporary files to RAM instead of disk; RAMDisk configuration includes writing to/from disk when restarting computer so temporary files have persistence across reboots. I have installed this program. To get it to work with L4 do I need to do anything special? You mentioned changing the TEMP and TMP variables? Can you give me a few details for setting this up so that it speeds up L4? I appreciate your help!
For searches and indexing, Logos 4 writes many temporary files. By convention, the TEMP and TMP environment variables have the same path to a folder for temporary files. Many programs on Windows use the TEMP and TMP variables so changing these environment variables to use a RAM Disk also affects other programs.
Some Windows programs create a lot of temporary files and leaves them. If using a RAM disk for temporary files, recommend periodically checking TEMP folder for leftover stuff, which can be moved elsewhere or deleted.
Windows 7 uses memory for caching files so a smaller RAM disk allows Windows 7 to cache more files.
Earlier in this thread posted several setup details => http://community.logos.com/forums/p/42235/320135.aspx#320135 wonder what question(s) remain ?
