[Xastir] Xastir going down at night

[Eric Christensen]

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Nope, just an Internet feed (firenet.us:2023).

When I was checking top both CPUs were less than 5% and I was only using
about a gig of RAM.

Eric


Curt, WE7U wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Jul 2007, Eric Christensen wrote:
> 
>> I have Xastir locked up at this time.  Top shows Xastir using 0.5% of
>> the memory and no CPU usage at this time.  The most I've seen in CPU
>> usage from Xastir was 3%.
> 
> There are a few possibilities I can think of:
> 
> *) Something locked up Xastir's main thread.
> *) Something locked up one of the interface threads at a point where
>    it was holding a lock on some resource.
> *) Something killed one of the interface threads at a point where
>    the thread was holding a lock.
> 
> As to what is messing with the threads, I have no idea.  I haven't
> had any threads lock up on me in quite some time.  Is it possible
> that some other application is starving the computer for CPU or
> memory and the scheduler is just killing random processes to make
> room?  At one point that was the default for the scheduler when
> starvation occurs.  Don't know if that's still the way things are.
> 
> I can't think of any other causes at the moment.  Are you running
> with only an internet interface or with a TNC interface as well?
> 
> --
> Curt, WE7U: <www.eskimo.com/~archer/>     XASTIR: <www.xastir.org>
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