[Xastir-dev] Weather maps progress

[Jerry Chamberlin]

Ok thanks, guess it was my connection dropping several times that hosed it up.
Seems to be back to "normal" again..

Thanks for all your work.

On Sun, 23 Jan 2005, Curt Mills wrote:

> On Sun, 23 Jan 2005, Jerry Chamberlin wrote:
> 
> > Weather alerts seem faster but(Oh-OH) the incoming internet stations seem to
> > lock much more frequest. running 2 instances on a X workstation, one local and
> > one on another server, totallyt brought X workstation to it's knees.
> 
> No major changes to the weather alert code have been checked in yet.
> I have the new stuff running but still need to work on the expire
> code and some other miscellaneous stuff.
> 
> I need to make sure I check through the code that decides when to
> redraw weather alerts.  I'd like it to redraw them only when a real
> CHANGE happens to the weather alerts (new/change/expire) instead of
> shortly after alerts come in.  I think it might be doing the latter
> now with both versions of the code.  as I'm not sure the code is
> accurate right now about what constitutes a change.
> 
> If you try to zoom out to U.S. or world level and have weather
> alerts streaming in, Xastir will pause for a bit to process each one
> and then (much too often) redraw the weather alerts/symbols/tracks.
> 
> The only changes that are in there now are minor ones I did last
> week.  They might have helped a few percent, but weren't what I was
> striving for.
> 
> So...  Better things are coming but I can't check them in yet.
> Right now the expire code is segfaulting on me.  I could comment out
> the expire code and commit it, which would fix your problem, but
> then you'd have your weather alert hash table grow over time
> unbounded.  Better that I get the expire stuff working so that
> nobody runs a weird version like that too long.
> 
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