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RE: [ECS] Michael's lockup Michael David Fri, 5 May 2000 04:31:59 -0400

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Hi Ingo!

What would be using up all my timers?  All I have running on the machine (NT
4.0 SP6a) is ECS, ACE server, Norton Antivirus, and D4 (a neat little clock
auto-synchronization program).  Is there some way I can see how many timers
have been started?

Cheers!

Michael David
michael@michaeldavid.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Ingo Pakleppa [mailto:ipakleppa@home.com]
Sent: Friday, May 05, 2000 4:08 AM
To: ecs-list@netbloc.com; ecs-list@netbloc.com
Subject: Re: [ECS] Michael's lockup

Maybe he simply ran out of timers? Windows has a limit of, I believe, 25
timers systemwide that can be active at any one time. If you try to start
more timers, the SetTimer() function will simply return an error.

Ingo

At 04:52 PM 5/4/00 -0400, Mark Gilmore wrote:
>Does anyone have a theory on what could "eat" Win TIMER messages ?
>ECS sets a Win timer to .25 seconds, and then sleeps until
>it receives a message. When the timer msg is received, it
>executes Events and resets the timer.
>
>The problem is that Michael's old lockup has returned,
>whereby ECS occassionally freezes until he moves the mouse.
>This triggers a Win message, which then "wakes up" ECS.
>The lockup means that ECS never received the timer message.
>
>The reason it is happening again is that I used an improved
>method of coding around the problem, whereby I used a SECOND
>"insurance timer" (ASSUMING that ONE would "get thru").
>But apparently, this timer is being "killed" as well as the 1st.
>
>???????
>--
>Mark Gilmore
>Omnipotence (ECS home automation software)
>http://www.usit.com/omnip
>423-745-0026
>Hours: Mon-Sat, 9AM-8PM/EST

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