[Xastir] 126,858 stations/objects in Xastir

[Gerry Creager - NOAA Affiliate]

Curt

That sounds like an opportunity to recode the connect stream to do a
reconnect periodically... perhaps every 30 min (just a random idea/number
bereft of an analytic basis). Consider making the new connection and then
breaking the old connection. Are you thinking buffer exhaustion?

On Tue, Jun 4, 2019 at 3:32 PM Curt Mills <curt.we7u at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sounds like the same, yes. At some point Xastir can't keep up with an
> unfiltered full stream and the incoming queue gets bigger and bigger until
> you get a disconnection from the server. Xastir will process packets for a
> while out of the queue, then reconnect to the server if that option is
> checked.
>
> On Tue, Jun 4, 2019 at 1:29 PM MLHPUB <mlhpub at free.fr> wrote:
>
> > Hi Xastir list,
> >
> > Could it be Xastir behaviour I have noticed before as a "TCP/IP
> > connexion lost" ?
> > Were big latencies after more than H24 uptime without any filter.
> >
> > Never tried again.
> >
> > 73 de F4ACU
> > Matthieu
> >
> >
> > Le 03/06/2019 à 23:37, Curt Mills a écrit :
> > > A point of reference: I put Xastir on a full feed last week and got up
> to
> > > 120k+ stations. I then switched to a range-filtered Firenet feed for
> the
> > > next 24 hours and the number kept increasing. The max it hit was
> 126,858
> > > stations, then the number declined as some of the earlier stations
> > started
> > > timing out.
> > >
> > > That's by far the highest number of stations I've personally seen in
> > > Xastir. To get there I had to zoom way in and turn off display of
> > > stations/objects/weather alerts. Even then Xastir kept disconnecting
> from
> > > the remote server periodically because it would get too far behind in
> > > processing packets. After I switched to the filtered feed the
> processing
> > > time was no longer an issue and it stayed connected to the server.
> > >
> > > Xastir's in-memory "database" and packet decoding are not optimized for
> > > those kinds of numbers.
> > >
> >
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