Re: [slim] SlimTray.exe unresponsive and huge

2007-03-13 Thread vdorta
Hmm, I now get an error: Can't open to write to C:\Program Files\SlimServer\SlimServer Web Interface: Permission denied, but SlimServer still opens normally. -- vdorta vdorta's Profile:

Re: [slim] SlimTray.exe unresponsive and huge

2007-03-13 Thread bpa
One of the changes I made to SlimTray was to make it write the Slimserver Web Interface shortcut file using the port number given in preferences. With old SlimTray if a user started Slimserver on a port other then 9000 SlimTray would open up the browserwindsow on localhost:9000 and nothing

Re: [slim] SlimTray.exe unresponsive and huge

2007-03-13 Thread vdorta
I forgot to say that SlimTray2.exe stops SS right away when required, however, the icon stays illuminated; with the original SlimTray.exe I have to click twice for SS to stop, but if I remember well the icon turns off. -- vdorta

Re: [slim] SlimTray.exe unresponsive and huge

2007-03-12 Thread vdorta
I am happy to report that SlimTray2.exe works just as well in Vista. -- vdorta Silent computer, Windows Vista Ultimate, dBpowerAMP Reference/FLAC, Slimserver 6.5.2, Inguz Room Correction, wireless SB2 (Bolder digital analog mods, Sonicap Platinum bypass caps, Bolder Deluxe Power Supply),

Re: [slim] SlimTray.exe unresponsive and huge

2007-03-11 Thread vdorta
Has anyone used SlimTray2.exe on Vista? -- vdorta Silent computer, dBpoweramp Reference/FLAC, Slimserver 6.5.2, Inguz Room Correction, wireless SB2 (Bolder digital analog mods, Sonicap Platinum bypass caps, Bolder Deluxe Power Supply), Stello M200 monos, ACI Sapphire XLs + REL Storm III |

Re: [slim] SlimTray.exe unresponsive and huge

2007-03-11 Thread bpa
I used build 820 of the ActiveState PerlTray tool which is used to build SlimTray. According to ActiveState website from build 819 their tools have been tested on Vista. However SlimTray uses one Perl module which does not come from ActiveState and this module makes some Win32 API calls. I think

Re: [slim] SlimTray.exe unresponsive and huge

2007-03-11 Thread vdorta
bpa, I will test the SlimTray2.exe later today and report back. -- vdorta Silent computer, Windows Vista Ultimate, dBpowerAMP Reference/FLAC, Slimserver 6.5.2, Inguz Room Correction, wireless SB2 (Bolder digital analog mods, Sonicap Platinum bypass caps, Bolder Deluxe Power Supply), Stello

Re: [slim] SlimTray.exe unresponsive and huge

2007-03-02 Thread bpa
A patch file has already been attached to the bug report. The changes are a number of small additions/aterations, no major changes. This should make them acceptable to the maintainer of SlimTray. Before you embark on a C++ version that could replace SlimTray. Make sure that in principle

Re: [slim] SlimTray.exe unresponsive and huge

2007-03-02 Thread ceejay
One more test data point for you: I hadn't noticed any particular issues with slimtray but reading this thread got me interested enough to look. My handle count was approaching 1.5M. I can't now remember the memory usage but I don't think it was excessive - 12M? SlimServer Version: 6.5.1 -

Re: [slim] SlimTray.exe unresponsive and huge

2007-03-02 Thread bpa
The patch file has been assigned to Dan to review but I think he is on vacation so if accepted it may be a while before any changes may appear in the nightlies. -- bpa bpa's Profile:

Re: [slim] SlimTray.exe unresponsive and huge

2007-03-02 Thread ceejay
Further update: although the number of handles is certainly stable it does look as if there are some memory leaks here. I've left my server running for 10 hours since restarting it this morning - nothing playing, no activity anywhere, and the memory usage has gone from: Slimserver: 76,460k to

Re: [slim] SlimTray.exe unresponsive and huge

2007-03-02 Thread bpa
Curious observation. I'm trying to sort out a socketwrapper issue but I couldn't get DEBUGPIPE debug output when running 6.5.2 so I installed 6.5.0. I now get debug output and also SlimTray doesn't leak handles AND it is only 5.8Mbytes in size. So it looks like the memory leak and size has

Re: [slim] SlimTray.exe unresponsive and huge

2007-03-02 Thread JJZolx
bpa;185002 Wrote: Curious observation. I'm trying to sort out a socketwrapper issue but I couldn't get DEBUGPIPE debug output when running 6.5.2 so I installed 6.5.0. I now get debug output and also SlimTray doesn't leak handles AND it is only 5.8Mbytes in size. So it looks like the

Re: [slim] SlimTray.exe unresponsive and huge

2007-03-01 Thread Ramage
Great work bpa. SlimTray2 works well and those niggly problems are gone. -- Ramage P2 266MHz,Linux ClarkConnect 3.2, SlimServer Version: 6.5.2 - 11354, Alien 1.06, perl 5.8.8 P4 2.6GHz, Win XP, SlimServer Version: 6.5.2 - 11304 - Windows XP - EN - cp1252, Alien 1.06 NSLU2 Unslung 6.8b

Re: [slim] SlimTray.exe unresponsive and huge

2007-03-01 Thread JJZolx
Nice work. Want a challenge? Maybe a 'super' SlimTray. Here are some ideas: - Use an INI file for SlimTray configuration so that things like the service name aren't hardcoded into SlimTray itself. This would be transparent to most users, as you could still use hardcoded names in

Re: [slim] SlimTray.exe unresponsive and huge

2007-03-01 Thread bpa
In Windows ini files are no longer in fashion - the registry (ugh) is the preferred MS option. Whatever mechanism is used, it would be Slimdevices who would have to support it as INI files make installation and upgrades a pain (e.g. do you have one INI file per user or one system one, what

Re: [slim] SlimTray.exe unresponsive and huge

2007-03-01 Thread JJZolx
bpa;184527 Wrote: In Windows ini files are no longer in fashion - the registry (ugh) is the preferred MS option. Stay out of the registry. SlimServer uses a prefs file, which is the same thing, just a different internal data format. Whatever mechanism is used, it would be Slimdevices who

Re: [slim] SlimTray.exe unresponsive and huge

2007-03-01 Thread TimothyB
Thanks for building the new slimtray, bpa. On my Win XP pro sp2 box, with 46 processes running, the stock slimtray was leaking 45 handles every ten seconds. Is your source available? I'm thinking about taking a peek at it and maybe translating it to C++. -- Timothy -- TimothyB

Re: [slim] SlimTray.exe unresponsive and huge

2007-02-28 Thread bpa
I've made a few more changes to SlimTray to be tested. 1. Handles leak should still be fixed. 2. Stop MySqld.exe as well as Slim.exe when Stop Slimserver used. 3. Open Slimserver will open the port specified in prefs file and not always 9000. 4. Opening the Window in IE should be more reliable

Re: [slim] SlimTray.exe unresponsive and huge

2007-02-28 Thread MrSinatra
awesome... trying it asap! -- MrSinatra www.LION-Radio.org Using: Squeezebox2 w/SS 6.5.2 (beta!?) - Win XP Pro SP2 - 3.2ghz / 2gig ram MrSinatra's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2336 View this

Re: [slim] SlimTray.exe unresponsive and huge

2007-02-28 Thread MrSinatra
works great for me... opens to albums in fishbone skin. (will it always do that? or can it be made to open to the last left frame you were on in fishbone?) closes mysqld on exit. no leaky handles. i always use 9000 tho. how long is the balloon timeout supposed to be? (i think xp does that

Re: [slim] SlimTray.exe unresponsive and huge

2007-02-28 Thread bpa
opens to albums in fishbone skin. (will it always do that? or can it be made to open to the last left frame you were on in fishbone?) I did nothing new in this area - all SlimTray does is issue the short cut in the file SlimServer Web Interface.url you can look at yourself or even double

Re: [slim] SlimTray.exe unresponsive and huge

2007-02-28 Thread vdorta
Great! SlimTray2.exe works well in my system. -- vdorta Silent computer, EAC/FLAC, Slimserver 6.5.1, Inguz Room Correction, wireless SB2 (Bolder digital analog mods, Sonicap Platinum bypass caps, Bolder Deluxe Power Supply), Stello M200 monos, ACI Sapphire XLs + REL Storm III | Chaintech

Re: [slim] SlimTray.exe unresponsive and huge

2007-02-27 Thread MrSinatra
Simonfish;183838 Wrote: I was about to rewrite SlimTray in C (which I may still do - 13Mb for that little thing?!!?!?) wow, u have brass ones to write that after my effigy. bpa, i am certainly out of my depth, but would a ST app in C need all that? seems to me i have various systray icons

Re: [slim] SlimTray.exe unresponsive and huge

2007-02-27 Thread Marc Sherman
MrSinatra wrote: Simonfish;183838 Wrote: I was about to rewrite SlimTray in C (which I may still do - 13Mb for that little thing?!!?!?) wow, u have brass ones to write that after my effigy. There's a really big difference between you should and I might. - Marc

Re: [slim] SlimTray.exe unresponsive and huge

2007-02-27 Thread MrSinatra
Marc Sherman;184093 Wrote: MrSinatra wrote: Simonfish;183838 Wrote: I was about to rewrite SlimTray in C (which I may still do - 13Mb for that little thing?!!?!?) wow, u have brass ones to write that after my effigy. There's a really big difference between you should and I

Re: [slim] SlimTray.exe unresponsive and huge

2007-02-26 Thread Michael Herger
i asked why isn't it done in C? Because SlimServer has been developped in Perl, I guess. It's probably as simple as that. does anyone know why someone would want those things to run as services rather than processes? is it a security/users thing? Services are run at machine startup. You

Re: [slim] SlimTray.exe unresponsive and huge

2007-02-26 Thread MrSinatra
bpa;183552 Wrote: The failure to open an Slimserver IE window when slimserver starts always happens on my system with the official SlimTray and I think it is due to timing. The bug fix to which kdf referred is only relevant when port no is changed using httpport option, it won't fix this

Re: [slim] SlimTray.exe unresponsive and huge

2007-02-26 Thread Simonfish
bpa;183396 Wrote: Using the latest ActiveState tools, I've tried to rebuild SlimTray.exe exactly as 6.5.1 - however the resulting version didn't work because of the changes to libraries also latest ActiveState is build 820 and I think 6.5.1 was built using 819. So I've patched SlimTray.pl

Re: [slim] SlimTray.exe unresponsive and huge

2007-02-26 Thread bpa
Don't forget if you rewrite it in C - Slimdevices may not maintain it. AFAICT SlimTray does not take up 13Mbytes by itself. - look at the memory usage in detail. About half of that are shared Microsoft DLLs and about 25% is the main Perl interpreter DLL which is shared with Slimserver. The

Re: [slim] SlimTray.exe unresponsive and huge

2007-02-25 Thread bpa
The problem is in SlimTray code - the routine ProcessID. It uses a routine called GetProcessPid in Win32::Process::List. Changes were made to the Win32::Process::List in June 06 and GetProcessPid no longer returns -1 if the process is not running. These changes to the return behavior are not

Re: [slim] SlimTray.exe unresponsive and huge

2007-02-25 Thread Marc Sherman
bpa wrote: The problem is in SlimTray code - the routine ProcessID. It uses a routine called GetProcessPid in Win32::Process::List. Yup, better rewrite it in C... :) - Marc ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com

Re: [slim] SlimTray.exe unresponsive and huge

2007-02-25 Thread bpa
Using the latest ActiveState tools, I've tried to rebuild SlimTray.exe exactly as 6.5.1 - however the resulting version didn't work because of the changes to libraries also latest ActiveState is build 820 and I think 6.5.1 was built using 819. So I've patched SlimTray.pl as per my previous posts

Re: [slim] SlimTray.exe unresponsive and huge

2007-02-25 Thread bpa
bpa wrote: The problem is in SlimTray code - the routine ProcessID. It uses a routine called GetProcessPid in Win32::Process::List. Yup, better rewrite it in C... :) - Marc For ulitmate irony, I was hoping the bug was in the C code that supports this Perl module - turns out the

Re: [slim] SlimTray.exe unresponsive and huge

2007-02-25 Thread Graham
Thanks bpa -- that works great for me. A steady 56 handles. You're a hero! -- Graham Graham's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5207 View this thread:

Re: [slim] SlimTray.exe unresponsive and huge

2007-02-25 Thread MrSinatra
bpa, you're a genius... one caveat, my slimtray.exe was in the slimserver root, not the server dir, but i assume thats what you meant. also, i had already filed a bug report for this, so i don't know if you want to post this there or what, but regardless, fantastic job. mine seems to peak at

Re: [slim] SlimTray.exe unresponsive and huge

2007-02-25 Thread Victor
MrSinatra;183457 Wrote: bpa, you're a genius... since slimtray is WINDOWS ONLY and EXTREMELY BLOATED mem usage wise considering its very limited functionality, i still believe it to be a fair and worthwhile question to ask why not C? and it is just a question. the fact that question

Re: [slim] SlimTray.exe unresponsive and huge

2007-02-25 Thread bpa
bpa, you're a genius... Nope , but from years of experience I found that bugs get solved by applying effort to the problem and not by exchanging remarks. Users always get worked up about their problem - so I always used to let them blow off steam and tackle the problem not the person.

Re: [slim] SlimTray.exe unresponsive and huge

2007-02-25 Thread kdf
On 25-Feb-07, at 10:05 AM, bpa wrote: I was thinking of adding an option to ST to allow users to kill MySqld as well as Slimserver. cool. There is bug4706 filed to cover this. I'd need to look at the Slimserver code to see if explicitly tries to kill MySqld on shutdown. See svn change

Re: [slim] SlimTray.exe unresponsive and huge

2007-02-25 Thread MrSinatra
bpa, thx again. i should mention though that it wasn't the handles that got me 'worked up,' but rather the times i'd come back to my computer to find slimtray at 68megs and unresponsive. i didn't even know about the handles issue till after that. thx for not tackling me, and tackling the

Re: [slim] SlimTray.exe unresponsive and huge

2007-02-25 Thread vdorta
bpa;183396 Wrote: If you want to try my patched version you can find it here. http://homepage.eircom.net/~altondsl/slim/SlimTrayexe.ZIP I replaced SlimTray.exe with the patched version and tried both starting it and restarting Windows but it doesn't work (icon continuously on-off, when I

Re: [slim] SlimTray.exe unresponsive and huge

2007-02-25 Thread MrSinatra
fyi: i set both 'slim services' in XP to manual, they don't start automatically. slimtray does, its in the startup of my pgm menu. my config uses localhost port 9000 btw. its now at 62 handles (~12megs) and steady upon reboot. when i start SS manually from ST, it starts both the slim and

Re: [slim] SlimTray.exe unresponsive and huge

2007-02-25 Thread bpa
Vdorta, Can you revert back to your old SlimTray and see if that still works. The error message is as a result of an extra error check I put into the processID code. I need to look up what causes it. MrSinatra, I'm not sure what the first bit of the post is about. Are you reporting a problem

Re: [slim] SlimTray.exe unresponsive and huge

2007-02-25 Thread Bill Burns
bpa wrote: Using the latest ActiveState tools, I've tried to rebuild SlimTray.exe exactly as 6.5.1 - however the resulting version didn't work because of the changes to libraries also latest ActiveState is build 820 and I think 6.5.1 was built using 819. So I've patched SlimTray.pl as per

Re: [slim] SlimTray.exe unresponsive and huge

2007-02-25 Thread MrSinatra
bpa;183507 Wrote: MrSinatra, I'm not sure what the first bit of the post is about. Are you reporting a problem with the new SlimTray or explaining your setup to Vdorta ? sorry, i was unclear... the entire post above describes how things are now using your slimtray.exe i am pretty sure it

Re: [slim] SlimTray.exe unresponsive and huge

2007-02-25 Thread bpa
Maybe I'm a bit thick tonight but can you confirm that aside from not leaking handles, on your system you see NO change in behaviour of SlimTray between my version and the official version. With regard to mysqld - by design in SS6.5.1 in Windows mySQLD is not shut down - it possible that

Re: [slim] SlimTray.exe unresponsive and huge

2007-02-25 Thread MrSinatra
bpa;183528 Wrote: Maybe I'm a bit thick tonight but can you confirm that aside from not leaking handles, on your system you see NO change in behaviour of SlimTray between my version and the official version. well, the thing is i can't say for certain. i was playing around with the services

Re: [slim] SlimTray.exe unresponsive and huge

2007-02-25 Thread oreillymj
If you tell Slimtray to Automatically run at log in then the Slimserver process and associated processes are owned by the currently logged on user and can be killed much like Unix processes. If you select Automically run at system start then the processes are started as a service and then they

Re: [slim] SlimTray.exe unresponsive and huge

2007-02-25 Thread bpa
Don't bother running tests - just report if my SlimTray somehow does not work in the same way it used to. The failure to open an Slimserver IE window when slimserver starts always happens on my system with the official SlimTray and I think it is due to timing. The bug fix to which kdf referred

Re: [slim] SlimTray.exe unresponsive and huge

2007-02-24 Thread bpa
More details on the nature of the problem. The issue of slimtray not releasing handles occurs in the versions of slimtray in 6.5.1 and latest nightly 6.5.2. It does not happen in 6.3. The problem happens on a clean system (i.e. only 3rd party s/w running was Acronis backup scheduler - no AV or

Re: [slim] SlimTray.exe unresponsive and huge

2007-02-24 Thread Robin Bowes
MrSinatra wrote: this thread was 31 posts long with np... at post 32 good ole boy marc sherman started it: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showpost.php?p=182841postcount=32 No, you started it with the post to which Marc responded. don't blame me for the little cabal of you guys who can't

Re: [slim] SlimTray.exe unresponsive and huge

2007-02-24 Thread stinkingpig
This would be a more efficient way to get the desired outcome: PHP code: if (Win32::Service::GetStatus( '',$key, \%status)) { print $key is present\n; } else { print $key is not present\n; } $key needs to be the shortname of the

Re: [slim] SlimTray.exe unresponsive and huge

2007-02-24 Thread Bill Burns
bpa wrote: So pending testing the 6.3 version of slimtray - people who have this problem should state 1. Slimserver version 2. Version of Windows 3. How is slimserver service setup to start 6.5.2 - 11332 - Windows XP - EN - cp1252 XP Home SP2 Automatic start Port 9000 Slimtray: Mem Usage

Re: [slim] SlimTray.exe unresponsive and huge

2007-02-23 Thread oreillymj
I looked through the Slimtray.pl code in subversion and while I'm no perl expert, it's hard to see anything that might be causing a leak. I also checked it's activity in Filemon Regmon. It seems to read a few reg key's every few seconds but there are matching closekey entries. Next step would

Re: [slim] SlimTray.exe unresponsive and huge

2007-02-23 Thread bpa
It is possible there is an interaction with some other s/w typically the security stuff - Antivirus, Firewall etc. Some of these packages insert them selves into Windows system calls and don't behave properly. A test on a clean Windows systems may also be useful. -- bpa

Re: [slim] SlimTray.exe unresponsive and huge

2007-02-23 Thread MrSinatra
on my system, slimtray usually holds steady at around 13megs. however, the handles ALWAYS increase, and do so non-stop. i do not have anything unusual on my system, as i use the built in XP firewall, windows defender, and AVAST AV. all pretty normal things. (avast is great) if i had to

Re: [slim] SlimTray.exe unresponsive and huge

2007-02-23 Thread Marc Sherman
MrSinatra wrote: i still don't understand why they stick with perl for slimtray anyway. high time to move that to C, to lessen the load and fix this annoying handles issue. You keep saying that. Patches are welcome, I'm sure. - Marc ___ discuss

Re: [slim] SlimTray.exe unresponsive and huge

2007-02-23 Thread MrSinatra
and several of you regulars on here always say that. not my job, and i don't code. SD makes and markets the product, the responsibility is theirs, and no i don't want this thread hijacked into another useless debate over the obviousness of what i'm saying. -- MrSinatra www.LION-Radio.org

Re: [slim] SlimTray.exe unresponsive and huge

2007-02-23 Thread bpa
There have been a lot of changes in slimtray for 6.5 and since nobody complained of this problem before 6.5 this point to a 6.5 coding issue. The ActiveState tool for creating system trap apps hasn't changed much in 2 years and many other users are using it without reporting this problem so

Re: [slim] SlimTray.exe unresponsive and huge

2007-02-23 Thread MrSinatra
actually, my wee quibble with what you say is that i think its a lot more prevalent then you might think, its just most users don't look in task manager, let alone configure it to display handles. i consider myself a power user, and i hadn't done that til directed to in this thread. as to the

Re: [slim] SlimTray.exe unresponsive and huge

2007-02-23 Thread Michael Herger
as to the code tool, seems to me to be just another reason to port the app to C, We all know it's easy in C, but we don't know C. Please stop wasting your time telling us how easy it is and start reading Learn C in 24 hours. Contributions are still rewarded. Go ahead! -- Michael

Re: [slim] SlimTray.exe unresponsive and huge

2007-02-23 Thread Michael Herger
http://newdata.box.sk/bx/c/ :-) -- Michael - http://www.herger.net/SlimCD - your SlimServer on a CD http://www.herger.net/slim - AlbumReview, Biography, MusicInfoSCR ___ discuss mailing

Re: [slim] SlimTray.exe unresponsive and huge

2007-02-23 Thread MrSinatra
i just want to be clear on this... are you saying no one at SD knows C? how about logitech? and stop pushing the you go code it angle. i'm not a slim employee, don't ever plan to be, and its an old refrain from you guys that jeopardizes the intent of the thread. -- MrSinatra

Re: [slim] SlimTray.exe unresponsive and huge

2007-02-23 Thread kdf
I see two options: 1) file a bug regarding the handles problem, and allow the developers/qa to handle it in the queue with everything else. 2) continue to dictate how/when and what language it needs to be done in, likely resulting in more responses of patches welcome until someone decides

Re: [slim] SlimTray.exe unresponsive and huge

2007-02-23 Thread bpa
Quite right about wondering how prevalent - that is part of the task of characterising the problem - other questions that need to be answered Q. Does it affect all Windows XP users or only some users - and if it is not all users what is the common factor. Q. Is this a new 6.5 problem or was it

Re: [slim] SlimTray.exe unresponsive and huge

2007-02-23 Thread Ben Sandee
On 2/23/07, MrSinatra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i just want to be clear on this... are you saying no one at SD knows C? how about logitech? and stop pushing the you go code it angle. i'm not a slim employee, don't ever plan to be, and its an old refrain from you guys that jeopardizes the

Re: [slim] SlimTray.exe unresponsive and huge

2007-02-23 Thread Michael Herger
i'm not a slim employee, don't ever plan to be, and its an old refrain from you guys that jeopardizes the intent of the thread. You don't know coding. Stop telling programmers what's easy, what's not. Yes, this really is an old refrain. I'm stopping here. Have a nice weekend. -- Michael

Re: [slim] SlimTray.exe unresponsive and huge

2007-02-23 Thread MrSinatra
come on kdf et al, i'm not dictating anything, i'm just ASKING why, given these issues and given the windows only usefulness of slimtray, and given that even when it works its a bloated 13meg plus systray icon, does SD stick with perl? its not an attack, a dictation, or anything of the sort, its

Re: [slim] SlimTray.exe unresponsive and huge

2007-02-23 Thread Robin Bowes
MrSinatra wrote: and several of you regulars on here always say that. not my job, and i don't code. SD makes and markets the product, the responsibility is theirs, and no i don't want this thread hijacked into another useless debate over the obviousness of what i'm saying. No, you don't

Re: [slim] SlimTray.exe unresponsive and huge

2007-02-23 Thread kdf
Quoting MrSinatra [EMAIL PROTECTED]: come on kdf et al, sorry. you lost me now. ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] SlimTray.exe unresponsive and huge

2007-02-23 Thread MrSinatra
Robin Bowes;182889 Wrote: MrSinatra wrote: and several of you regulars on here always say that. not my job, and i don't code. SD makes and markets the product, the responsibility is theirs, and no i don't want this thread hijacked into another useless debate over the obviousness of

Re: [slim] SlimTray.exe unresponsive and huge

2007-02-23 Thread Robin Bowes
MrSinatra wrote: and btw, i have filed a bug for it. Good. Let's leave it at that then, shall we? R. ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] SlimTray.exe unresponsive and huge

2007-02-23 Thread Secret Squirrel
MrSinatra;182882 Wrote: come on kdf et al, i'm not dictating anything, i'm just ASKING why, given these issues and given the windows only usefulness of slimtray, and given that even when it works its a bloated 13meg plus systray icon, does SD stick with perl? its not an attack, a

Re: [slim] SlimTray.exe unresponsive and huge

2007-02-23 Thread MrSinatra
hey SS, thats interesting, Avast would be the one unique thing to me i think... but i'm not about to uninstall it to find out. still, good thinking. i am using 6.5.2 though... chances are, bpa or someone who is far smarter than i will figure it out, or it'll simply wait to be dealt with by

Re: [slim] SlimTray.exe unresponsive and huge

2007-02-23 Thread y360
Bug is not related to Avast - handle leakage happens on my laptop which has Norton AV -- y360 y360's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10150 View this thread:

Re: [slim] SlimTray.exe unresponsive and huge

2007-02-23 Thread bpa
Y360 - are you running XP or XP pro ? -- bpa bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32257

Re: [slim] SlimTray.exe unresponsive and huge

2007-02-23 Thread Secret Squirrel
Read Chris Owens' post in another thread regarding software engineering. You might find it informative especially if you're not a software developer yourself. I am and Chris' post is a rehash of most software development environment's I have work in. To paraphrase what he says, to attempt to fix

Re: [slim] SlimTray.exe unresponsive and huge

2007-02-23 Thread MrSinatra
also y360, what SlimServer ver? and it is possible its a shared issue, meaning something avast and norton both do, but thx for your help! secret: i'm just asking questions. as ur new, u should wait until u have a problem to see what reaction u get b4 recommending to me... just a thought. as

Re: [slim] SlimTray.exe unresponsive and huge

2007-02-23 Thread y360
I have XP Pro SlimServer Version: 6.5.2 - 11466 - Windows XP - EN - cp1252 -- y360 y360's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10150 View this thread:

Re: [slim] SlimTray.exe unresponsive and huge

2007-02-23 Thread y360
Looking with Process Explorer from sysinternals.com the leakage is of process handles It looks like slimtray iterates over all open processes and creates a new handle for each process every few seconds - so the leakage severity will depend on the number of processes the machine is running --

Re: [slim] SlimTray.exe unresponsive and huge

2007-02-23 Thread Secret Squirrel
MrSinatra;182909 Wrote: also y360, what SlimServer ver? and it is possible its a shared issue, meaning something avast and norton both do, but thx for your help! secret: i'm just asking questions. as ur new, u should wait until u have a problem to see what reaction u get b4

Re: [slim] SlimTray.exe unresponsive and huge

2007-02-23 Thread MrSinatra
first of all, PM me that crap, it has nothing to do with the thread. secondly, i don't walk on eggshells, and i don't apologize for other's delicate sensibilities. i simply asked a question, and i refuse to get beatup for it, and i don't care who that annoys. TS. if you have anything to add

Re: [slim] SlimTray.exe unresponsive and huge

2007-02-23 Thread bpa
Back to the problem in hand. One of the big changes to slimtray in 6.5 was monitoring whether slimserver was active. This could tie in with y360 observation. Its behaviour also varies depending on how the Slimserver service is setup: Manual, Auto or on Login. So pending testing the 6.3 version

Re: [slim] SlimTray.exe unresponsive and huge

2007-02-23 Thread Robin Bowes
MrSinatra wrote: Robin Bowes;182889 Wrote: MrSinatra wrote: and several of you regulars on here always say that. not my job, and i don't code. SD makes and markets the product, the responsibility is theirs, and no i don't want this thread hijacked into another useless debate over the

Re: [slim] SlimTray.exe unresponsive and huge

2007-02-23 Thread MrSinatra
this thread was 31 posts long with np... at post 32 good ole boy marc sherman started it: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showpost.php?p=182841postcount=32 don't blame me for the little cabal of you guys who can't handle A QUESTION which in your twisted perspectives somehow besmirches your

Re: [slim] SlimTray.exe unresponsive and huge

2007-02-23 Thread y360
bpa;182977 Wrote: Back to the problem in hand. So pending testing the 6.3 version of slimtray - people who have this problem should state 1. Slimserver version 2. Version of Windows 3. How is slimserver service setup to start 4. Does slimserver use port 9000 ? 6.5.2 - 11466 -

Re: [slim] SlimTray.exe unresponsive and huge

2007-02-23 Thread bpa
I think there is a bug in SlimTray regarding whenusing ports other than 9000 but it may be unrelated to the problem in hand. Although Slimtray checks user prefs for the socket number - Slimtray will always try to connect to 9000 to see if Slimserver is listening. This may have desired

Re: [slim] SlimTray.exe unresponsive and huge

2007-02-22 Thread y360
I can confirm SlimTray is indeed leaking file handles In my case, looking at Windows Task Manager it has reached 1,464,939 handles and is increasing by exactly 80 handles every 10 seconds I'm running SlimServer Version: 6.5.2 - 11466 -- y360

Re: [slim] SlimTray.exe unresponsive and huge

2007-02-21 Thread MrSinatra
great work... what i've been doing is just quitting slimtray every so often. i have to say, i am disappointed in the lack of response either of my bugs has gotten from SD. maybe your grunt work will prod them along. -- MrSinatra www.LION-Radio.org Using: Squeezebox2 w/SS 6.5.2 (beta!?) -

Re: [slim] SlimTray.exe unresponsive and huge

2007-02-21 Thread Simonfish
Turns out that the problem is probably in the implementation of perl used by SlimTray. Slim can't do anything to fix that bug, so I would recommend not running SlimTray if you plan on leaving your machine running without rebooting for more than a day or so. -- Simonfish

Re: [slim] SlimTray.exe unresponsive and huge

2007-02-21 Thread MrSinatra
well, wait a minute... it seems to me that thats a bad answer as a long term plan. surely, if they want people to have slimtray, that have to offer a slimtray that isn't leaky? if the whole perl interpreter is in the exe itself as jim suggests, why not use a version of perl that isn't

Re: [slim] SlimTray.exe unresponsive and huge

2007-02-21 Thread JJZolx
Simonfish;182358 Wrote: Turns out that the problem is probably in the implementation of perl used by SlimTray. How did you come to that conclusion, rather than it being an issue within SlimTray itself? Was the most recent SlimTray compiled with a different version of ActivPerl than in the

Re: [slim] SlimTray.exe unresponsive and huge

2007-02-20 Thread Simonfish
MrSinatra;180413 Wrote: 320,084 handles and counting. filed two bugs: http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4762 http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4763 please vote for them! I've updated bug 4762 with a bit more information. I went in with a debugger to to see what's

Re: [slim] SlimTray.exe unresponsive and huge

2007-02-16 Thread Mark Lanctot
Maybe - I do start it automatically. -- Mark Lanctot It's like, you know, a New Age religion, but with better treble response. - Jon Heal Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View

Re: [slim] SlimTray.exe unresponsive and huge

2007-02-15 Thread MrSinatra
i had a thought... perhaps it happens to those users who don't start SS automatically... haven't the time to try now, but wanted to jot this idea down b4 i forgot it. -- MrSinatra www.LION-Radio.org Using: Squeezebox2 w/SS 6.5.2 (beta!?) - Win XP Pro SP2 - 3.2ghz / 2gig ram

Re: [slim] SlimTray.exe unresponsive and huge

2007-02-13 Thread Graham
Looking at the windows task manager, my slimtray.exe is accruing a massive number of file handles over time. It steadily ramps up, with perhaps 100,000 over the day. Nothing bad seems to result from this, but it's clearly not right. This is true for both the current stable slimserver install

Re: [slim] SlimTray.exe unresponsive and huge

2007-02-04 Thread MrSinatra
i just put the nightly on, and mysqld still isn't quitting after i exit slim.exe from the slimtray icon. should i file a bug report for that? -- MrSinatra www.LION-Radio.org Using: Squeezebox2 w/SS 6.5.2 (beta!?) - Win XP Pro SP2 - 3.2ghz / 2gig ram

[slim] SlimTray.exe unresponsive and huge

2007-01-30 Thread MrSinatra
for some reason, when i went to start SS from the system tray, it wouldn't respond, no left or right click. so, i brought up task manager and its a whopping 67,924K and climbing incrementally. end process did kill it np, and it restarted np. any idea why this happened? also any idea why