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.
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