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Posted By: eXtreme Gammon In Response To: Anyone else having a problem with XG crashing computer? (Bob Koca)
Date: Sunday, 28 February 2010, at 5:17 p.m.
Bob
It’s never possible to rule out completely the software, but it appears to be a hardware problem. As many mentioned it looks like overheating.
Windows does a pretty good job (since windows 2000 and even more since XP) to isolate processes so that if a program errors it does not take the whole system down.
Your computer is pretty old and one thing that one needs to do, especially when running a computer intensively is to open the computer and clean it. The amount of dust that can accumulate on the CPU can be staggering and will cause overheating as the heat sink blades are not exposed. I would recommend to that once every 3 months if you are rolling positions 24/7.
Also you can download tools such as HWmonitor http://www.cpuid.com/hwmonitor.php to check your system temperaures
To answer other questions in that thread:
- To KenB: Yes I am aware of this problem, actually this is the last problem I need to fix before releasing the next update. As you mentioned it happens only at the first evaluation so you don’t lose work, but this is annoying. I’ve spend the last 4 days working on that.
- Memory leak: I tested extensively for it and I am pretty confident there are none significant (in debug mode the language reports back any leak and once in great while there is a leak of 33 bytes or so).
- Sleep mode: this problem is not related to that, but the next release will notify the system that the computer should not go to sleep when an analyze is going on. Once the analyze is finished the computer will go to sleep right away the sleep delay was reached. It will not prevent user initiated sleep.
Xavier Dufaure de Citres
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