Frank Tkalcevic wrote:
> I originally posted this on IRC, but my network died so I couldn't discuss
> it.
>
>  
>
> I was 4 hours into a 3D print using linuxcnc, and the machine crawled to an
> almost complete stop. My job was still running, but it executed 1 line of
> gcode, then pausing for 2 seconds. Axis wasn't showing the preview. The DRO
> read all 0.  'top' showed CPU at about 5% (it normally 80% or more because
> of axis).
>
>  
>
> While the job was running, I was writing a monitoring application (on
> windows in c#) that would connect to linuxcncrsh and query the machine
> status every 5 seconds.  I noticed the linuxcncrsh code reuses the nml
> interfacing code in halui.cc.  Does this mean that linuxcncrsh uses the same
> nml channel as axis?  Could this have been my problem?
>
>  
>
> After rebooting, I restarted my job and it completed fine (it took 8 hours
> :( ) without using linuxcncrsh.
>   
Hmm, one possibility is there's a memory leak, and it ran the CNC system out
of free memory.  Was the disk busy (swapping)?  But, I'm just guessing.

Jon

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