Non-Classmate DS Problems

[Greg McKaskle]

The console looks fine to me too.

The system watchdogs and even user watchdogs will primarily show up in the diagnostics screen with a count of how many have been tripped. This finally lets us see even small glitches where the WD would be fed shortly after a timeout.

If you have any development tools on the computer, you may have a tool called perfmon (performance monitor). It will let you view CPU usage and tons of other performance related issues on a single process. It might be interesting to see what it looked like in normal and broken.

Also, there will shortly be an update to the DS which lowers the CPU need for most of the screens and ups the determinism of the control loop by getting rid of context switches within the control loop. If you are interested in testing this out, let me know email contact info via PM.

Another test you could do would be to go to the DS task in the task manager, right click and experiment with changes to the processor assignment and the priority.

Also, while there it might be interesting to see if a virus scan or some other task was responsible for the spike in CPU that seems to be starving the DS.

Greg McKaskle