I wonder if any of you have experienced this and if so, how did you fix it.
If I run WD (currently using 10.17u but older versions had same problems) for a day or so, the graph lines start getting closer and closer together.
If you look at the data in the file, indeed the data isn’t being sampled as often. The green lights seem to take longer to get the data. It is so bad that the normal 1 hour interval shrinks to about 20% or less of its normal width.
Using WIN98SE. Hardware is AAG one wire with the standard adapter.
A warm restart elliminates the problem until another day passes.
I’ve now noted this on two completely different computers (both 500 MHz or better with at least 300Meg of RAM and many GB of free HD space.
ISA COM ports.
Tried looking at CPU utilization - around 15% during data sampling and 100% on screen writes. Don’t appear to be overtaxing computer. Numbers hold even in “constipated state”
Looked at CPU temp. 50 degrees C or less. Seems to rule out overheating.
Tried different COM ports (motherboard and ISA expansion card)
It’s like around 100,000 data samples something gets “constipated” and slows everything up.
Have tried using the option to free memory at 12 hour intervals. No help.
It’s almost like in the old days when one had to do “garbage collection” of storage periodically or face extreme slow ups.
The interesting thing is that a warm restart cures. This seems to point towards software problems somewhere.
When I used Win98SE, I had to reboot many times during the day due to my heavy use of the computer. Having 15 - 30 apps open at a time for me is normal.
Moving to ME didn’t help but when I started using WinXP… I rarely reboot for days on end dispite a still continued high level of usage.
Even though you might not be using a lot of apps, you might be having OS related problems. Win98SE is actually quite old now.
I have struck this problem, but not to the same extent and not lately. I’m currently running a Windows ME system with 128 mb of ram. Agin a warm reboot does fix it.
No other tasks running (other than the normal windows overhead trash)
No internet connection.
No error messages in the WD error log.
Yes, W98SE is old. However, not about to switch to another one.
(Please don’t get me started on why I hate XP or switching operating systems to “fix” problems generates more problems than it fixes)
It seems that this is simple enough for even lowly WIN98SE to handle.
I’d settle for an automatic warm reboot every X hours instead.
I wonder if there is some utility that could be run as a separate task which peforms this automatic reboot.
rocket man runs WD on win 98 on a relatively low end PC
and i have not seen this problem on his pc
and he runs lots of 1 wire sensors
and i have not had any other reports quite like this either…
wd has a auto reboot sheduler,…see in the ftp/internet setup, weather report setup
the sympoms will happen if less and less cpu is avialble to WD…or even maybe there is a memory leak…and less and less memory available will do the same thing
I run a low, low end old [very] laptop with the OS being 98se dedicaded to WD and to to web site upload via 56k dial up, never have had this problem but had a lot of wierd problems until I did two things, [1] I installed and ran adaware what a shock lots of “ET phone home” nasties [2] I installed a freebee [ramdefxt, but there many auto ram monitoring/defrag programs available on the web] hey presto 98SE now runs like an OS should do, [in spite of its provenence] and memory leakage is no longer a problem.
The only problems I now have with the WD/98SE/918/ combination is finger trouble [mine]
you might like to look at these possibilities.
good luck 8O :!:
I noted that the wind direction had flat lined after reboot. A manual warm reboot brought back the wind direction. This has occured several times now.
It appears that there is some problem detecting the wind direction indicator after the WD induced warm reboot. Looking at the Dallas 1 wire setup screen, I see several attempts at attaching the direction ROM. It does finally succeed though.
Perhaps I better look into one of the RAM reorganization programs instead.
Also going to switch back to the standard link. Had been replaced it with THL-1 LINK to see if the constipation problems could have been due to faulty link device.