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Flakiness in PilotManager [FIX]
- To: pilotmgr@shadow
- Subject: Flakiness in PilotManager [FIX]
- From: bharat@shadow (Bharat Mediratta)
- Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 09:59:40 -0700
- Sender: owner-pilotmgr@shadow
Hi, guys --
I've gotten a fair number of bug reports about PilotManager
and have been doing what I can to fix them.
It would appear that 90% of the flaky behaviour people have
witnessed in PilotManager is because of sloppy programming
on my part. Right now PilotManager has an unbelievable amount
of memory leaks stemming from a few bad function calls.
Here's how you can avoid the problem:
1. ALWAYS quit PilotManager between syncs.
2. Try to make sure that you have 50+Mb of
swap space when you run PilotManager
(use 'whatami' or 'swap -s' to determine this)
The other 10% of the problems are because ENS sneakily
moves your calendar from your home machine to your server
and doesn't tell you about it. If things go wrong, check
your calendar location...
I'll be coming out with a new version very soon (late
this week or early next week) which takes care of the
memory leaks. Until then, please try to follow the above
instructions.
If you know somebody who uses PilotManager and you suspect
they are not on the mailing list, please encourage them to
join this list so that they know about new versions. This
mailing list is my main way to track PilotManager usage.
From the mailing list I can try to build a business case around
why Sun really should be building a dependable, fully supported
sync environment.
Cheers,
-Bharat
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