Erratic slowdowns on Win 7 machines
Due to corporate requirements, all the company pc's must be updated or replaced with Win 7 systems.
The first system I completed began life using LV 2011 with Win 7 and for the most part, things work pretty good though there are some glitches. Once in particular will show up somewhat erratically with no pattern. Sometimes can go days or even weeks and sometimes twice a day.
It manifests itself by what appears to be a sudden pause in the execution of the system. Certain functions will recover but there is always something behind the scenes that will quickly cause things to not work. The only visual indicators that I have observed is that the system time that I display on the UI stops updating. It usually ends up requiring an application shutdown and restart and occasionally a system reboot.
I had always thought there was something in my code that was driving this but after this week, am re-thinking that. I have another application that has been running quite a long time on a Win xp box in anything from LV 8.6 to 2011. Never a problem. I have ported the app over to a brand new dell with win7 and loaded with LV 2013 (w/ update). All of the sudden this thing will exhibit these strange pauses quite often.
It is much more noticeable on this system as it performs screen updates after each of the 12 or so individual tests that run consecutively. Once it wigs out, it never recovers even though it will continue to run through the tests, albiet very slowly. The screen updates lag and cause the entire sequence to go from a three and a half minute sequence to a 12 minute sequence, give or take.
Before I go posting screen caps and code and all, I just wanted to see if there are any known issues when updating to a win 7 box (is 32 bit). It seems to be centered around screen updates and perhaps global variables maybe ? I keep my gv's to a minimum. I run a basic four loop parallel architecture (Event Structure loop, screen update/global var loop, user event/ui state machine and, the execution state machine (does all the grunt work).
Are there any code issues known to not get along with win 7 ? Win 7 display issues ? global variables ? constant time polling (45 ms delay in loop) ? other ?
Thanks for any thoughts on this.
Doug
Doug
"My only wish is that I am capable of learning each and every day until my last breath."
Yea, sorensens can be troublesome sometimes but I found that once you get them talking, there ususally are not any other troubles to deal with.
pwr sply is connected straight to computer usb. No special setups or anything. I talk to the power sply a few times during the test sequence and get responses and would clearly expect a com error if there were issues there. Only opening one instance with it and closing it on exit.
Have been playing with the code that impacts screen updates and have been able to reduce if not eliminate the glitch. Certainly at least affecting it. Disabling certain display functions makes it go away (at least for the limited duration I have been able to test within) or at least reduces the impact.
I am convinced there is some display issue going on. Bad part is, I may be able to band-aid it but not knowing the root cause means it could haunt me forever.
Who knows, could be a conflict with some corporate installed watchdog utility. The fact that I found little to nothing related to this on the forums means it must be somewhat specific to what I have going on. That or everyone else who experienced it found the solution much faster than I.
If I do come up with anything definitive, I will certainly append this thread accordingly.
Onward I go.....
Doug
"My only wish is that I am capable of learning each and every day until my last breath."
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