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

[Christian Janssen DL1MGB]

On all three computers at least 100 Gb free dsik space.

73s Chris



Am 10.08.2023 um 13:51 schrieb 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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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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