[WriteLog] Network Instability

[Stan Staten]

Sounds like a memory leak in W98.  I used to have this problem and found
a utility (if I recall right I was steered to it on the Wl reflector)
that would free up memory.  W98 does a poor job of releasing memory that
was in use but released by programs.  When W98 gets to the point that
there is little memory left to use it gets really funny and it sounds
like you are seeing that.  In short, if what I suspect is happening is
correct, it is an operating system glitch not one in WL.  Wish I could
recall the utility I used, but I have been using XP for some time and my
W98 memory is fading fast.  I did a Google search for "memory leak" and
got a whole bunch of stuff listed. 

73 Stan, N3HS

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[mailto:writelog-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Hal Kennedy
Sent: Friday, November 25, 2005 9:52 AM
To: writelog at contesting.com
Subject: [WriteLog] Network Instability



I think we are chasing at least two problems here, but I'm not sure. I
observed the crashes at PJ2T and it has happened at WW4LL.  At PJ2T
there were three computers on the network - all 100 MHz Ethernet - no
wireless.  At WW4LL it's the same - two or three computers on 100 MHz
Ethernet - no wireless. When network traffic gets high - as in two rigs
running fast and lots of telnet spots, one or more bandmaps will start
to flicker, then the computers with flickering bandmaps crash (WL locks
up).  On several occasions at PJ2T (running WIN98SE) I was able to close
WL and observe the windows error message that says something like:
Dangerously low on
resources - suggest you close one or more programs.   There were no
other programs to close however.  Rebooting brings it all back up okay,
and the logs resync and all is well for a while, but a few hours later -
down it goes again.  The telnet spots at PJ2T come in bursts due to
having a crummy ISP - I think the crashes were most common when a burst
of 30 spots would hit all at once.

I don't see this here at N4GG, but it is very hard to test for, as I
can't generate enough network traffic.  Ill try some experiments this
weekend when spot traffic is high..

N4GG


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