Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: SgtSwanson

These are the msgs I'm getting after putting the Java.exe in the folder




What the folder looks like, it's currently in the game dir.



The first 2 images will flip flop between the regular and no-map modes.

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ORIGINAL: pws1225

Six db files? I thought there were only four.

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ORIGINAL: fcharton

Since a few turns, the time needed for Tracker to initialize underwent a noticeable change, from less than a minute, to 12-15... (840 seconds for the base load, and about a minute more for the actual program start)

I now have 167 turns in the database, it is big (270MB) but not huge.

During the database load, memory usage is relatively low (about 150MB), as is processor usage (a few percents)
During the program load, both get slightly higher (500MB and 15-30%, on a dual core), but nothing too bad.

What seems to kill the whole thing seem to be the IO, and specifically the reads : Windows records 6 million reads for the base. I suspect the speed could be nicely reduced if some of those could be cached (there probably are a few files/data structure which bear the brunt of the IO). The fact that the change happened suddenly once a certain limit is reached suggests some parameter in Java or the database... (ie over a certain size, everything is done on disk, and gets slow)

In the meantime, is there any way I can speed up the loading, some way to "pack" the existing DB? some change in my java configuration?

Thanks in advance.
Francois

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ORIGINAL: Xargun

quote:

ORIGINAL: fcharton

Since a few turns, the time needed for Tracker to initialize underwent a noticeable change, from less than a minute, to 12-15... (840 seconds for the base load, and about a minute more for the actual program start)

I now have 167 turns in the database, it is big (270MB) but not huge.

During the database load, memory usage is relatively low (about 150MB), as is processor usage (a few percents)
During the program load, both get slightly higher (500MB and 15-30%, on a dual core), but nothing too bad.

What seems to kill the whole thing seem to be the IO, and specifically the reads : Windows records 6 million reads for the base. I suspect the speed could be nicely reduced if some of those could be cached (there probably are a few files/data structure which bear the brunt of the IO). The fact that the change happened suddenly once a certain limit is reached suggests some parameter in Java or the database... (ie over a certain size, everything is done on disk, and gets slow)

In the meantime, is there any way I can speed up the loading, some way to "pack" the existing DB? some change in my java configuration?

Thanks in advance.
Francois

I am having the same problem with Tracker taking 15+ minutes to load. Usually took 90-100 seconds before then all of a sudden the time jumped to 3 minutes, then 4 and now were are up to 12 or more everytime. Not sure if I have some corruption in a data file or what but it really adds time to doing a turn as Japan.

I also notice that I cannot open tracker and then go back into the game - when I alt-tab back out Tracker has closed. Any ideas ?

Xargun

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ORIGINAL: paulkenny

I want to load a different game in tracker, my game I was tracking seems to have died out.  So I moved all of those saved files from the tracker folder and saved my new turns into tracker (started later in the game so only have 2 turn in-in August 42).

changed the name of the game in the batch file

but when I load tracker it still loads the old game, im not sure how it even finds those files

any suggestions?

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ORIGINAL: floydg
As more turns are loaded, more memory is needed. I'm guessing that you've reached a threshold where the program has to start paging to disk, significantly slowing things down. Can you try an experiment and reboot your PC and run just WitPTracker (nothing else) and see if the speed increases?

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ORIGINAL: rjopel

Request for column in the devices tab.

Can we get a production end date for devices?

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ORIGINAL: Xargun

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ORIGINAL: floydg
As more turns are loaded, more memory is needed. I'm guessing that you've reached a threshold where the program has to start paging to disk, significantly slowing things down. Can you try an experiment and reboot your PC and run just WitPTracker (nothing else) and see if the speed increases?

Yes this worked - if I load Tracker before AE it loads in about 3 minutes - very reasonable I think for 220 turns or so of data. Thanks

Xargun

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ORIGINAL: asdicus

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ORIGINAL: n01487477

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ORIGINAL: asdicus

For some reason tracker has stopped working properly in my babes mod pbm game. I am the allies and tracker has worked fine up to april 1943. For the last 2 daily turns I am getting this error when I try to load the file.


C:\Matrix Games\witp AE tracker>java -Xms384m -Xmx512m -jar "WitPTracker.jar"
WitP Tracker AE tables loaded in 10 seconds
Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-0" java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException:
0 >= 0
at java.util.Vector.elementAt(Unknown Source)
at witptracker.AircraftPanel$1.getValueAt(AircraftPanel.java:127)
at witptracker.AircraftPanel$1.getColumnClass(AircraftPanel.java:137)
at javax.swing.table.TableRowSorter.useToString(Unknown Source)
at javax.swing.DefaultRowSorter.updateUseToString(Unknown Source)
at javax.swing.DefaultRowSorter.sort(Unknown Source)
at javax.swing.DefaultRowSorter.setRowFilter(Unknown Source)
at witptracker.AircraftPanel.actionPerformed(AircraftPanel.java:595)
at javax.swing.JComboBox.fireActionEvent(Unknown Source)
at javax.swing.JComboBox.contentsChanged(Unknown Source)
at javax.swing.AbstractListModel.fireContentsChanged(Unknown Source)
at javax.swing.DefaultComboBoxModel.setSelectedItem(Unknown Source)
at javax.swing.DefaultComboBoxModel.addElement(Unknown Source)
at javax.swing.JComboBox.addItem(Unknown Source)
at witptracker.AircraftPanel.PopulateCombos(AircraftPanel.java:828)
at witptracker.AircraftPanel.<init>(AircraftPanel.java:280)
at witptracker.GUIMain.CreateAndShowGUI(GUIMain.java:752)
at witptracker.GUIMain$5.run(GUIMain.java:1018)
at java.awt.event.InvocationEvent.dispatch(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventQueue.access$000(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventQueue$1.run(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventQueue$1.run(Unknown Source)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.security.AccessControlContext$1.doIntersectionPrivilege(Unknown
Source)
at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(Unknown Source)

C:\Matrix Games\witp AE tracker>pause
Press any key to continue . . .

I am using Win XP pro and I am sure java is loaded ok etc - tracker has worked fine for over 400 turns. Using 1.8 tracker. Any thoughts ? I can post a save game file if it would help the tracker developers.

Thanks - posting a save before and after this occurred would be good. witptracker@gmail.com

In the mean time maybe you could make a new install of tracker and see if you can load one of those new turns.

Cheers

Sorry this problem was my mistake. I am using the 1108p6 beta which has a new pwsdll. When I reinstalled ae tracker I forgot to replace the original pwsdll with the beta pwsdll. Problem is now solved.

Thanks for your reply to my query.

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ORIGINAL: schwartzkie
Im having a similar issue except I already pasted the new pwsdll to the tracker folder. Just upgraded from 1106i to 1108q2 as well as Tracker 1.6 to Tracker 1.8. Any tips?

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ORIGINAL: fcharton

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ORIGINAL: schwartzkie
Im having a similar issue except I already pasted the new pwsdll to the tracker folder. Just upgraded from 1106i to 1108q2 as well as Tracker 1.6 to Tracker 1.8. Any tips?

If you are under XP, try having a Windows update of your system. One update is needed for the recent DLL to work.

Francois

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ORIGINAL: Chris H

Request

I know that when some groups arrive in play their leader can also a pilot but did not realised that pilots assigned to a sqn could also be air group leaders. All you need to do is transer them to the reserve and they will then appear in the lest of group leaders. This may not be new to some of you but it was to me.

Problem is there is no way within game that I can see that will allow you to work this out. Only reason I found this out was I wanted to assign a good training leader (high leadership) to a NZ group and used tracker to list available leaders. The top three had leadership over 70 and very high inpiration 85+ but I could not see them in game. I decided to look at the list of top pilots in game and found them assigned to one unit, but as pilots. I stuck them into reserve and they became available as group leaders.

In tracker it would help if the leader 'Assign to' field also indicated when they are assigned as pilots and for that matter, when they are assigned to tracom.

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ORIGINAL: schwartzkie

I am running on Windows 7

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ORIGINAL: Dan Nichols

I just downloaded the q3 beta patch. It has a exe file that supports 70,000 pilots but I guess it doesn't work with the current Tracker version. What are your plans for this?

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ORIGINAL: schwartzkie

I uninstalled and reinstalled what I could find.....looks like this now and still doesnt work. I cant seem to find the specific version you have listed there.....