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- Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:21:55 +0100
If you are using two identical Dell computers, but JAWS runs sluggishly only
on one of them, this would suggest that the problem is with the computer and
not with JAWS. Have you performed routine disk maintenance and clean-up on
the slow machine?
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From: "Jeffrey Schwartz" <sidney.schwartz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2008 10:06 AM
Subject: RE: Jaws running sluggishly
> This machine has a gb of RAM. I know that's not a great deal by today's
> standards but I never had this with pc's which had less. Also, I'm using
> the same computer, a Dell, at work. It only has 512mb and doesn't give me
> the same problem, and it is running more programs, often open at the same
> time.
>
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> From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Thomas J. Hesley
> Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2008 9:52 AM
> To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: Jaws running sluggishly
>
> Certainly the amount of RAM also affect this.
>
> It's this gradual slowdown in JAWS responsiveness that's intriguing. It
> seems like there could be a memory or handle or thread leak somewhere.
> Can't know for sure unless we observe the performance monitor when JAWS is
> running fast, and then observe it again after things slow down, and then
> compare the differences in resource allocation. That might clue us in as
> to
> where the problem might be.
>
> But having too little RAM in the computer could make this slowdown happen
> more quickly and to a higher degree.
>
> Tom Hesley
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Laura
> Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2008 9:40 AM
> To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: Jaws running sluggishly
>
> SoSometimes depending on how much ram you have to run programs on your
> computer Jaws for windows tends to run slowly.
> Laura
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> From: "Thomas J. Hesley" <pulse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2008 8:25 AM
> Subject: RE: Jaws running sluggishly
>
>
>> Not a resource issue? Have you checked ALL potential resource
>> bottlenecks?
>> Have you not seen the JAWS processes gradually consuming more (or less)
>> memory or CPU utilization or thread counts or IO operations the longer
>> they
>> run? How about other processes on your machine? Use task manager in the
>> processes tab to see this information. The presence of running JAWS
>> processes can affect other, seemingly unrelated processes too.
>>
>> Tom Hesley
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
>> Behalf
>> Of Jeffrey Schwartz
>> Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2008 7:41 AM
>> To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: Jaws running sluggishly
>>
>> This is a problem which started with, I believe, jaws v.8 and is still
>> hounding me in the 10 beta. I've taken it to FS tech support to no avail.
>> When I type a message in Outlook and to a much lesser degree in MS Word,
>> jaws gradually starts to become very slow. To be more precise, the echo
>> starts falling behind my typing. As time goes on jaws gets slower and
>> slower. My typing gets to be a sentence ahead of the jaws echo. No, I'm
>> not a fast typist. Also the cursor gets sluggish. If I stop to review
>> what
>> I have written, and do a control-home, it takes the cursor forever to get
>> to
>> the top of the document and arrows down very slowly at first to read the
>> text. After a couple of lines, it wakes up and responds normally. This
>> problem has been plaguing me for years, and I've consulted with tech
>> support
>> on many occasions. Any help would be greatly appreciated. It's not a
>> resource issue.
>>
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