[Xastir] xastir hangs

[Curt Mills, WE7U]

On 4 Jun 2003, Chris Hare wrote:

> I am running RH9 and xastir 1.1.5 updated using CVS on Monday.  for the
> last few days I have been experiencing problems where xastir hangs and
> is unresponsive to the X server.  What information do you need to try
> and figure out the problem?  The remainder of the system is operational
> and works fine.

Check memory usage with "top" to see if Xastir's memory image is
growing.  Try turning off snapshots and see if it stops growing.


> I should mention there is not TNC, it is internet only traffic and the
> maps are stored local on teh disk.  The problem seems to occur
> regardless of the map desnity (number of maps and layers) or if the
> online tigermap is the only map loaded.

Are you tracking anyone and therefore constantly reloading maps, or
running a static zoom & pan after you load maps initially?


> the system is RH9 with 256 MB of RAM.  xastir 1.1.4 and the CSV versions
> after May 19 is where this seems to originate for me.

Sure it's 1.1.4?  If you run bootstrap.sh and then configure/make/
make install, it'll should say 1.1.5.  It's been at 1.1.5 for a
couple/three weeks now.

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