Re: EDM freezes

[Dave Reid <dreid@u.washington.edu>]

> 2) There is a more subtle ongoing problem that (as far as I know) has 
> only been reported here at Jefferson Lab. When an EDM session has been 
> left running for a long (variable) time, the widgets will stop updating 
> despite the fact that the PV values are still changing. There is no 
> visual clue that anything is wrong, unless you can see the same PV's in 
> a different app or a separate EDM session. Usually everything will start 
> updating again if you open or close a display, or even expose a covered 
> display. This issue only started when we moved from HP-UX to RedHat 
> Enterprise Linux. It has not yet been resolved.
We here at the UW Medical Center have also seen this behavior, running EDM on 
Debian Linux.
dave reid
University Of Washington Medical Center