Chapter 4
How To Use the NI-FBUS Monitor
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Improving Performance
This section contains hints for improving the performance of the NI-FBUS
Monitor on systems slower than the platform recommended mentioned in
the
Conserve Memory
Close unnecessary applications, and set
Max num of packets
on the
Capture Settings
tab to a low value (less than 500). To see the
Capture
Settings
tab, select
Capture»Settings
or click the
Capture Settings
button on the standard toolbar.
Turn Live Updates Off
To prevent the NI-FBUS Monitor from updating its windows, deselect
Live Updates
on the
Capture menu
. On a slow computer, it can take a
relatively long time (more than one second) to update the graphics in
windows. During this time, you can lose many data packets. Lost packets
are denoted by an asterisk (*) before the packet in the capture.
Filter Only for Needed Data
Pass Token (PT), Time Distribution (TD), Return Token (RT), Probe
Node (PN), Probe Response (PR), and Compel Data (CD) packets occur
frequently. You might not want to collect all of these, particularly the Probe
Node (PN) packets.
No Split Windows
In general, the fewer open windows the NI-FBUS Monitor has to update,
the faster the NI-FBUS Monitor performs.
