randy@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu (Schrickel Randall) (03/07/90)
I have 2 very strange problems with a single application we have in house. I've talked to the Hot Line about the first, but haven't had any luck with what they suggested. Any help will be GREATLY appreciated (the Governor is coming in for a demo this weekend!) 1) The application gives random horizontal streaks of color across the screen. Hot line says we are trying to use an invalid bit plane (writemask) or color, but I have had no luck looking at those areas. Any other pointers/things to look at? 2) The same application goes through periods of slowing down then running at a normal speed. We have checked memory allocation, thinking that it may be growing, swapping, shrinking, but that looks like another dead end. It REALLY slows down; the animation almost stops. Help! Our setup has 6 2400 Turbos (4-6 Mb memory) networked to an HP 9000 835S. The application is a double-buffered animation program. The application acts the same on all 6 2400s, so we don't think it's a hardware problem. We also have other programs that use double buffering that don't have these problems. We are using the Remote Graphics Library (which we didn't develop; maybe it's from the Naval Postgrad School?) which uses sockets on both ends so the host HP sends graphics commands to the 2400s. Running 3.6 Unix. Also, to help with (2), what can I use to monitor my system/application performance besides "cc -p and prof"? Any PD full-screen monitors out there? If so, where? MUCH Thanx in advance!