2012 Field Comm. Issue Logs

[Greg McKaskle]

Reviewing logs sent to me from Bayou, I'm seeing a good number of glitches caused by the DS laptop. They don't necessarily cause lag, but I see periodic spikes in trip times and sometimes in lost packets. I've accidentally reproduced this myself by having IE open on the laptop. I also saw teams, with no dropouts or issues, that had 100% CPU usage continuously -- auto, tele, and disabled. I'd like to encourage teams to use the charts tabs and practice match built into the DS to look at their memory usage, CPU usage, and any repeatable spikes in trip time. I was able to open the task manager and see the odd Windows program jumping up in CPU from time to time.

While it is not a requirement to make a kiosk account to run the DS, if you see spikes, see if stopping other apps or killing other processes will get rid of them. And I believe directions for making a kiosk are available from FIRST.

Greg McKaskle