Hi, I finally figured out what was causing the horrible performance of Athena on my system; as in all too many cases the antivirus policies of enforced by system managers was the culprit. Every time a change was made in Athena (e.g. using a drop-down menu) the shell would freeze for several seconds while the Kaspersky antivirus scanned whatever function was called, what Athena had stored in RAM and such before allowing the function call to proceed. The same was repeated for the renewing of plots in gnuplot, which is why I initially thought it was related to gnuplot. Once I managed to persuade our IT-staff that my user should have the permission to kill off that process, everything in Athena was working like a charm. In short, beware Kaspersky if you are not permitted to set exceptions for certain software due to local security policies at your university or institute. Best regards, Nils Skoglund -----Original Message----- From: ifeffit-bounces@millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov [mailto:ifeffit-bounces@millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov] On Behalf Of ifeffit-request@millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov Sent: den 27 juni 2015 19:00 To: ifeffit@millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov Subject: Ifeffit Digest, Vol 148, Issue 27 Send Ifeffit mailing list submissions to ifeffit@millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov/mailman/listinfo/ifeffit or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to ifeffit-request@millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov You can reach the person managing the list at ifeffit-owner@millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Ifeffit digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: Ifeffit Digest, Vol 148, Issue 26 (Nils Skoglund) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2015 09:59:01 +0200 From: "Nils Skoglund" To: Subject: Re: [Ifeffit] Ifeffit Digest, Vol 148, Issue 26 Message-ID: <005901d0b0af$220d5990$66280cb0$@ltu.se> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hello Everton, Matt and Pushkar, Thank you for your replies. I have tried both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions with uninstalling in between, to no avail. I'm curious if it is a priority issue between the dual GPU's on the laptop that gnuplot can't handle well; there's both a dedicated GPU and an integrated one. System temperatures look normal and none of the fans are revving up, so it shouldn't be heat-related. Other softwares handle plotting without issues so the suggestion about gnuplot being the culprit seems like the most reasonable one. If I narrow this issue down and find a way to work around it, I'll let you know. Until then I'll just find some other workstation for the evaluation work - thanks again! //Nils -----Original Message----- From: ifeffit-bounces@millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov [mailto:ifeffit-bounces@millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov] On Behalf Of ifeffit-request@millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov Sent: den 26 juni 2015 19:00 To: ifeffit@millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov Subject: Ifeffit Digest, Vol 148, Issue 26 Send Ifeffit mailing list submissions to ifeffit@millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov/mailman/listinfo/ifeffit or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to ifeffit-request@millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov You can reach the person managing the list at ifeffit-owner@millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Ifeffit digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: Issues with Athena on high-performance systems (pushkar shejwalkar) 2. Re: Issues with Athena on high-performance systems (ebonturim@usp.br) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2015 10:05:23 +0900 From: pushkar shejwalkar To: XAFS Analysis using Ifeffit Subject: Re: [Ifeffit] Issues with Athena on high-performance systems Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Hi all, I am not an expert in this. In fact , I am one of the very new user of athena. But have you tried uninstalling and then reinstalling the whole package again? ( I am sure you have but since you didnt mentioned just wondering?) Sometimes, that also helps. not sure why and how? but it did for me. Pushkar On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 5:00 AM, Matt Newville wrote:

Nils,

We run Athena on non-wimpy Windows 7 systems at our beamline computers all the time, using both 64- and 32-bit Windows, and typically on multi-core machines with at least 16 Gb RAM and multiple screens. Like Robert, we don't see any real performance problems with a handful (<50) spectra. Athena rarely makes a very big dent in the system resources (well, comparable to a web browser, so a bit of a hog, but well under 1Gb RAM).

Perhaps what you're seeing is related to the plotting with Gnuplot. I'm not sure why that would be a problem... Any ideas?

--Matt

Hi,

I?m curious if anyone else is experiencing issues with Athena in more high-end systems running Windows 7? While I am used to having to wait for the *first* plot to show up, the software is virtually unusable to me now where any slight change (e.g. modifying range for the spline) to already imported data takes up to over a minute to replot. This didn?t use to be the case for me. The system is a laptop running Win 7 Professional with 2.40 GHz i7 CPU/16 GB RAM with plenty of space on the hard drives and a dedicated Intel HD 4600 graphics circuit.

If anyone has a work-around for this problem or can suggest anything to make Athena usable again, it would be most appreciated. Has anyone noticed previous versions of Athena running more smoothly?

Best regards,

Nils

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