{"id":93,"date":"2010-01-28T15:07:48","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T23:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ericainsworth.com\/olmonitor\/blog\/?p=93"},"modified":"2021-07-08T05:06:57","modified_gmt":"2021-07-08T05:06:57","slug":"sluggish-ol-monitoroptimizing-ol-monitor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olmonitorblog.azurewebsites.net\/?p=93","title":{"rendered":"Sluggish OL Monitor\/Optimizing OL Monitor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After helping a site troubleshoot a problem that came up on one of their pc\u2019s, I have a few tips for anyone who might be having similar problems or just wants to optimize their current installation.<br \/>\nSymptoms:<br \/>\n&#8211; Ol Monitor refreshes once and then becomes extremely sluggish, freezes, and has to be terminated with Task Manager.<br \/>\n&#8211; Multiple Smarterm sessions with \u201cKillMe\u201d in the title bar.<br \/>\n&#8211; Clicking on Ol Monitor application and getting \u201cThis program is not responding..\u201d message.<\/p>\n<p>Solutions:<br \/>\n-Turn off Error Logging: This option is in the Misc tab under \u2018Error Controls\u2019.\u00a0 On the pc in question, this turned out to be consuming way too much time and causing timeouts and freezing.\u00a0 If you are having no issues with Ol Monitor you can safely turn off this option anyway.<br \/>\n-Un-Check \u2018Test Mode\u2019: This option is also under \u2018Error Controls\u2019 and is only used when testing out Ol Monitor.\u00a0 If you have it enabled during normal use the Smarterm macro will prompt you at every refresh.\u00a0 If the Smarterm window is hidden or in the background this prompt will hang up the macro.<br \/>\n-Check Smarterm\u2019s shutdown options: Newer versions of Smarterm have various shutdown options:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1064\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/image-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"289\" height=\"267\" \/><br \/>\nNote which option you have selected and then try selecting \u2018Close the session\u2019 and \u2018Exit Smarterm if last session closed\u2019.\u00a0 Although your server may have a timeout and disconnects Ol Monitor, Smarterm will still not close when a macro is running.\u00a0 The macro will try to reconnect if the session disconnects.\u00a0 The other options, \u2018Show disconnect options\u2019 in particular, may cause Smarterm to pop up a question box that prevents Ol Monitor from shutting it down.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, note that with version 1.54 of Ol Monitor 2 additional connection checks have been added to sections of the macro.<\/p>\n<p>Turn off Encryption.\u00a0 On the Advanced tab of options, disable the &#8220;Encrypt PID&#8221; option: <a href=\"http:\/\/olmonitor.com\/ManualM\/window_7_2.htm#id_8\">http:\/\/olmonitor.com\/ManualM\/window_7_2.htm#id_8<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After helping a site troubleshoot a problem that came up on one of their pc\u2019s, I have a few tips for anyone who might be having similar problems or just wants to optimize their current installation. Symptoms: &#8211; Ol Monitor refreshes once and then becomes extremely sluggish, freezes, and has to be terminated with Task<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/olmonitorblog.azurewebsites.net\/?p=93\">Continue Reading&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21,81,91],"tags":[101,111],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olmonitorblog.azurewebsites.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olmonitorblog.azurewebsites.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olmonitorblog.azurewebsites.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olmonitorblog.azurewebsites.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olmonitorblog.azurewebsites.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olmonitorblog.azurewebsites.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1367,"href":"https:\/\/olmonitorblog.azurewebsites.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions\/1367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olmonitorblog.azurewebsites.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olmonitorblog.azurewebsites.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olmonitorblog.azurewebsites.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}