[WT-support] WT freezes randomly with contest recorder on

[Michael Ruttenberg]

Are you running out of disk space?

Mike
G7TWC

On Thu, 10 Aug 2023 at 09:35, Bob Wilson, N6TV <n6tv at arrl.net> wrote:

> I've also had some trouble with recording lately on Windows 10, but I
> blamed it on also running HamCap (Ionoprobe + VOACAP) continuously at the
> same time (map display), which seems to get stuck in a loop after a few
> hours, messing up the recorder, but not the rest of Win-Test.
>
> 73,
> Bob, N6TV
>
> On Thu, Aug 10, 2023, 1:10 AM Christian Janssen <chris at dl1mgb.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Laurent,
>>
>> last year, we had the same issue here at the station when we had audio
>> recording running. We then switched off the audio recording and the
>> freezing was not anymore.
>>
>> The audio recording was done in that way that a new file is created every
>> 40 Mb (around 1 hour). The freezing happened randomly about 3 to 7 hours
>> after starting the audio recording.
>>
>> My feeling is that something in Windows 10 wants to get access to the
>> audio resources, doesn't get it and creates trouble. Windows 10 is known to
>> be a trouble maker with audio...
>>
>> 73s Chris
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Laurent HAAS - F6FVY schrieb am 10.08.2023 09:43 (GMT +02:00):
>>
>> > Hi Chris
>> >
>> > Le 10/08/2023 à 08:07, Christian Janssen DL1MGB a écrit :
>> >
>> >> We have a 3 PC setup (Windows 10), 1x IC7610, 1x Flex 6400, 1x TS590.
>> All WT
>> >> 4.47.4. All three are now running for two days, all three with contest
>> >> recorder on. Randomly, WT on any of these three can freeze and has to
>> be
>> >> aborted and restarted.
>> >
>> > Are you saying that it's because the recorder is on that Win-Test
>> > crashes, or is it a coincidence ? To be fair, I personally never
>> > recorded over 48h or so in a row (the mp3 file size is around 600 MB in
>> > that case).
>> >
>> > For the record (pun intended), we have several Win-Test running on
>> > remote stations for days or weeks in a row (with no recording) and only
>> > power outages make them restart ;-) But, there are running on Win7
>> > machines (for those I know).
>> >
>> > 73
>> >
>> > Larry - F6FVY
>> >
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