[Xastir] Xastir shutting down prematurely

[John Wilson]

As of this writing, it has been running for about 12 hours with no
failures. Gremlins must be running a muck.

Running the memory test was next on the list. I plan on running that
several times to check for any inconstancies in the outcome.

John
On Mar 18, 2013 4:31 PM, "Curt, WE7U" <curt.we7u at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 18 Mar 2013, John Wilson wrote:
>
>  Not that I haven't seen it before but being this was a newly built
>> computer, I really didn't want to accept that I had acquired failed parts
>> in this brand new machine.
>>
>> I stopped the last thing I initiated in Xastir.
>>
>> Igate interface.
>>
>> It has been 18 hours since I stopped it and it has not shut down. Is there
>> a buffer setting for Igate traffic in Xastir?
>>
>
> Nope.  It just uses the last-heard-on-rf times for any particular station
> to decide whether to gate the traffic to RF.
>
> More than likely Xastir's memory image is growing over time just 'cuz of
> the station list and the associated data for each station.  Once it grows
> enough you might be heading over to another bit of memory that has issues.
>  You can minimize that by running filters on your INET connections to limit
> the number of stations you're receiving.
>
> You might run a memtest for a while to see if it's truly a memory problem.
>  That's the quickest way to figure it out.  If it's not in your boot menu,
> many of the install DVD's have it.
>
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