Chapter 4 How To Use the NI-FBUS Monitor
NI-FBUS Monitor User Manual 4-4 ni.com
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 Recommended Minimum Platform section of Chapter 1, Introduction.

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.