Why does ENET-232 driver use 98% CPU?

I have an ENET-232/4 device running under Windows XP Professional and am talking to it using LabVIEW 6.1. I am taking readings from an instrument every 5 seconds, with a small data exchange (6 byte command, response is about 50 bytes). Everything seemed to work just fine, but when left overnight the computer was very sluggish. The nisdsusr process was using 98% of the CPU time, and it continued to do so until I quit LabVIEW. Stopping the vi, which closed the serial port, was not good enough. I re-started LabVIEW and my vi, and I can see the CPU usage jump up to 12%-14% every time I take a reading, and go to basically 0 in between. This is perfectly fine. Why did this process go to 100% CPU usage and how can I prevent it from happen
ing again? I am using the 1.01 serial device server driver, which is the latest version and is XP compatible (aside from the driver signing issue).

I know this thread is old, but should anyone happen upon it...
This problem (I've had it too) happens when network communication is lost and the serial device server goes into some kind of loop waiting for a tcp ack that never comes back. Something like that. To fix it the port has to be closed that was being used then re-opened. I'm guessing this was your problem when leaving it to run... at some point network communications were lost and the driver went haywire and didn't recover.

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Edited by: user1175494 on 16.11.2010 15:23
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Why does one convert 8-bit pics to 16-bit? Not sure if this is an apt comparison, but it seems to me that that's kind of like upscaling, in video. Which I've always taken to mean adding redundant information to a file so that it 'fits' the larger canvas, but to no material improvement. In the case of video, I think I'd rather watch a 1080p movie on an HD (1080) screen (here I go again with my pixel-to-pixel prejudice), than watch a 1080p movie on a 4K TV, upscaled. But I'm ready to be wrong here, too. Maybe there would be no discernible difference? Maybe even though the source material were 1080p, I could still sit closer to the 4K TV, because of the smaller and more densely packed array of pixels. Or maybe I only get that benefit when it's a 4K picture on a 4K screen? Anyway, this is probably a different can of worms. I'm assuming that in the case of photo editing, converting from 8 to 16-bit allows one more room to work before bad things start to happen?
I'm recent to Lightroom and still in the process of organizing from Aperture. Being forced to "this is your life" through all the years (I don't recommend!), I realize probably all of my pictures older than 7 years ago are jpeg, and probably low-fi at that. I'm wondering how I should handle them, if and when I do. I'm noting your settings, ssprengel.
ssprengel Apr 28, 2015 9:40 PM
I save my PS intermediate or final master copy of my work as a 16-bit TIF still in the ProPhotoRGB, and only when I'm ready to share the image do I convert to sRGB then 8-bits, in that order, then do File / Save As: Format=JPG.
Part of the same question, I guess - why convert back to 8-bits? Is it for the recipient? Do some machines not read 16-bit? Something else?
For those of you working in these larger color spaces and not working with a wide gamut display, I'd love to know if there are any reasons you choose not to. Because I guess my biggest concern in all of this has been tied to what we're potentially losing by not seeing the breadth of the color space we work in represented while making value adjustments to our images. Based on what several have said here, it seems that the instances when our displays are unable to represent something as intended are infrequent, and when they do arise, they're usually not extreme.
Simon G E Garrett Apr 29, 2015 4:57 AM
With 8 bits, there are 256 possible values. If you use those 8 bits to cover a wider range of colours, then the difference between two adjacent values - between 100 and 101, say - is a larger difference in colour. With ProPhoto RGB in 8-bits there is a chance that this is visible, so a smooth colour wedge might look like a staircase. Hence ProPhoto RGB files might need to be kept as 16-bit TIFs, which of course are much, much bigger than 8-bit jpegs.
Over the course of my 'studies' I came across a side-by-side comparison of either two color spaces and how they handled value gradations, or 8-bit vs 16-bit in the same color space. One was a very smooth gradient, and the other was more like a series of columns, or as you say, a staircase. Maybe it was comparing sRGB with AdobeRGB, both as 8-bit. And how they handled the same "section" of value change. They're both working with 256 choices, right? So there might be some instances where, in 8-bit, the (numerically) same segment of values is smoother in sRGB than in AdobeRGB, no? Because of the example Simon illustrated above?
Oh, also -- in my Lumix LX100 the options for color space are sRGB or AdobeRGB. Am I correct to say that when I'm shooting RAW, these are irrelevant or ignored? I know there are instances (certain camera effects) where the camera forces the shot as a jpeg, and usually in that instance I believe it will be forced sRGB.
Thanks again. I think it's time to change some settings..

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Hello
Before posting yesterdays, I tested with a table of 4435 x 8 cells on the iMac described below.
I will be more precise than yesterdays.
Numbers recalculate the entire document after every change. A single new character is sufficient.
Twenty years ago, AppleWorks designers were kind enough to recalculate only what really needed.
It seems that new developers are not relying upon intelligence but upon processor's brute force.
Their code will be efficient … on the machines which will be available within at least five years.
Alas, at this time there will no longer be compatible with the operating system.
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If you wish, you may send your 'offending' document to my mailbox so I will be able to check the way it behave here. Don’t worry, I don't take care of what is really stored, only of the doc's behavior.
Click my blue name to get my address.
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Oops reading your question again, I see there is a misunderstanding:
http://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/specs-retina/
The 8GB is not hard drive memory. It is chip memory just for multi-tasking purposes, and it can be custom configured to 16 GB of multi-tasking memory. If you wanted to store applications or data files on it, you can create a RAM disk, but it actually would be copying the information off the SSD. There is no "permanent" storage of data on the 8GB or 16GB of RAM.
There is no platter hard drive anymore.
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The odd thing is your SSD can do swap file storage for multitasking, but also doubles as your place to store actual data files.
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