Today, I manually set the clock on the Palm Vx to 11:58 PM and then restarted my test
with error count at 0. Two minutes later the count increased to 1 with a time stamp of
0:00:02. There must be something that Palm OS schedules at midnight that takes 2 or 3
seconds. Can any Palm OS engineers enlighten me?
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I'm running a test on a module that spits out serial data - 3 messages - once every
second. I'm using a Palm (a Vx and a IIIc) to monitor these messages and report if and
when 1.5 seconds or more elapses between message transmissions. I left the system
running continuously over the weekend, starting on Friday afternoon, with the error
count reading 0. On Monday morning, the error count was 3, Tuesday morning it was 4,
and Wednesday morning it was 5. Wednesday, I
added a time stamp to the Palm display to discover when the time gap was occurring,
and restarted the system with an error count of 0. Thursday morning, the error count
was 1, with a time stamp of 0:00:03 (3 seconds past midnight). The question: does Palm
OS do some kind of memory garbage cleaning scheduled at midnight that could take
several seconds?
Dave Heil
Preco Electronics
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
208-322-4288
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