one thing to check on maybe is to make sure that your firewall or antivirus program is not checking on that WD files?
one bottleneck could be the heating and cooling degree custom tags
as a test, try removing those from the testtags.txt file
(you could try removing other tags, until you find the bottleneck, too)
(backup the file first)
Hi Brian, loosing those tags has helped, its dropped it down to only 8 seconds now, thanks 
thats good we found the bottleneck
those tags involve reading the logfile…which has alot
of lines to read
i will see if i can speed it up
Brian
not knowing how parsing the data…
Would loading the data into a database help expedite the execution?
Renato