Oh. And I should confirm that Dave does leave the backplot display on for hours, I'd say days! I know these things because I once drove a thousand miles out of my way to visit him. He wasn't home but looking through the shop window I could see TkEmc and the backplotter up on his screen. I knew I had the right place!
Rayh On Sun, 2010-04-04 at 08:01 -0700, dave wrote: > On Sat, 2010-04-03 at 23:03 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Saturday 03 April 2010, Dave Caroline wrote: > > >384meg is a bit on the low side, open a terminal and type > > >top > > >look at %wa should be 0 if its a high percentage its probably using > > >swap memory...and that is a speed killer > > > > > >Dave Caroline > > > <snip> > I use TkEmc but your description of the problem sounds identical if I > understood it correctly. > > I get a serious slowdown if I leave backplot up for hours. Screen > response gets really slow, even the mouse may take seconds to respond. > Shutting down backplot may take 10 to 30 minutes. As soon as backplot is > down my response come back to normal. > > I've always thought this was due to a memory leak that simply hogs more > memory over time. Other people contend that is related to job > priorities. > > It doesn't happen unless I run backplot and I rarely run anything but > emc on the machine. > > Any and all ideas, especially if accompanied with evidence would be > appreciated. > > Just my tupence. > > Dave ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
