[Xastir] Xastir going down at night

[Gerry Creager]

cvs update (or is it svn now?) and then a make clean, configure, make, 
make install.  Pretty easy.

My thought of a memory or controller issue is a device failure.  Like 
Curt, I've seen this happen and the failure modes are more numerous than 
I thought they'd be.

gerry

Eric Christensen wrote:
> I'm not even running the Firenet scripts (if you have them please send
> them my way).  I've only dipped into swap once and that was for 52kB and
> that was during a brute force attack on a password.  With Xastir only
> taking 0.5% of my physical memory (about 20MB of RAM) I can't see it
> being a memory problem.  It might be a video problem but I can surf over
> to another workspace and I don't have any problems.  Actually the
> problem seems to happen when I'm looking at it and when I'm on a
> different workspace.
> 
> I just trimmed back to a 14580 port vice 2023 just encase.
> 
> I just noticed something.  I'm using 1.8.4 when others are using 1.9.1.
>  I'm forgetting what I need to do to update my install.  Isn't it
> something easy?
> 
> Eric
> 
> 
> 
> Gerry Creager wrote:
>> Eric,
>>
>> If I start dipping into swap I tend to get more RAM.  You're already
>> well outfitted with 4GB physical memory.  You'd said that you're running
>> the firenet scripts and Xastir.  That shouldn't be an exhaustive load.
>> However, if you dip into swap, you're memory-bound, almost certainly.
>>
>> I wouldn't discount Curt's suggestion of a hardware (memory or memory
>> controller) issue.
>>
>> gerry
>>
>> Eric Christensen wrote:
>> Hi Chip,
>>
>> My setup is as follows:
>>
>> Processor: AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ Windsor 3.0GHz
>> HHD: 500GB
>> RAM: 4GB
>> Motherboard: ASUS M2N32-SLI
>>
>> I'm running Fedora 7 with the 2.6.22.1-27.fc7 kernel.
>>
>> I'm currently not connected to a TNC (gotta get a longer serial cable)
>> so all my data is coming off the IS.
>>
>> I'm setup to have 8GB of swap and I've only gotten that far when running
>> John the Ripper.  Otherwise I've never seen utilization over 2.5GB.  Per
>> Curt's request I will check for mem spillage as that could be a problem.
>>
>> 73s,
>> Eric W4OTN
>>
>>
>> Chip G. wrote:
>>>>> Yes. Can you tell us more about your setup? What OS are you using (and
>>>>> version)? What version of Xastir are you using? What interfaces do you
>>>>> have configured? Are you using a serial (TNC) connection? If so, how is
>>>>> the TNC connected to the computer?
>>>>>
>>>>> On Jul 25, 2007, at 06:06, Eric Christensen wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I've noticed some odd behavior from Xastir over the past couple of
>>>>>> days. I left it up and running last night and when I went to bed my
>>>>>> network lights were happily blinking like crazy as I was attached to
>>>>>> the FireNet IS. When I got up this morning Xastir was sitting there
>>>>>> with no map and no stations showing on the screen. There was also no
>>>>>> activity on the network. It just seemed dead. I had to argue a little
>>>>>> with it to make it close down. Has anyone else seen this kind of
>>>>>> behavior?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 73s,
>>>>>> Eric W4OTN
>>>>>
>>>>> 73,
>>>>> --de Chip (N1MIE) FN41bn
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