[Ifeffit] Issues with Athena on high-performance systems

pushkar shejwalkar pshejwalkar2004 at gmail.com
Thu Jun 25 20:05:23 CDT 2015


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 <newville at cars.uchicago.edu>
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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Best Regards,
Pushkar Shejwalkar.
Post-doctoral -Researcher,
Tokyo Engineering University,
Sapporo,
Japan
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