[Xastir] Xastir falling asleep?

[Gerry Creager N5JXS]

I've had 3 episodes, now, of the current (plus/minus 2 days) cvs xastir 
sleeping after extended periods... Desktop/RH9/stable everything before 
this.  We're also seeing cpu and memory usage spike when a connection is 
lost via internet to a server.  After the George's question a couple of 
days ago, I started looking.  I'm spiking cpu util. at 20% if 2 or more 
connections are lost (I'm on a flakey ISDN connection), and if n>4, it's 
really spooky.  I've not been able to correlate similar data drops with 
the sleeping issue, though it seems likely to be related.

gerry

Curt Mills, WE7U wrote:
> On Sun, 6 Jul 2003, Kirk Mefford wrote:
> 
> 
>>I have xastir loaded through a telnet session and displayed on a cygwin
>>x-server on an old Pentium-100 computer.  The slow computer can't handle
>>the load of being connected to an internet server very well but allows
>>xastir to always be on screen and "out of my way" this way.
>>
>>After an undetermined amount of time Xastir seems to go to sleep.  It still
>>displays the map screen etc but doesn't do anything until it receives a
>>mouse/keyboard command.  It is connected to an internet server and an AGWPE
>>port full time but after so long it doesn't decode incoming packets nor
>>does it send any packets until I give it some sort of input such as click
>>on a menu etc.
> 
> 
> What type of operating system is Xastir running on?
> 
> Are either of the two boxes a laptop?
> 
> Do you have APM running in the BIOS or the OS of either box?
> 
> Do the internet server connections and/or the AGWPE socket
> connection time-out?
> 
> I've noticed that if I start Xastir up on a Linux laptop I have, and
> don't give it any packets to digest, that I get similar operation to
> what you describe.  I don't get any updates to the maps and such
> until I move the mouse pointer or strike a key.  As long as I have
> packets coming in, or GPS strings to digest, it's fine.
> 

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