[iyonix-support] Re: Lazy Task Swapping on Iyonix/RISC OS 5.11

In article <112c9b3b4e.rogerarm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
   Roger Darlington <rogerarm@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Are you, as instructed, using them intensively, one after the other, 
> in the following fashion? :

> Drag a directory of (large) Jpegs to Variations.
> REPEAT
> a) Double-click on a thumbnail image to display it as large as 
> possible but in a window.
> b) Write some text (gibberish is good enough) in OvPro
> UNTIL (a line of pixels appears). [usually within 10 mins, maybe just 
> 3 mins]

Oooooh!!!!!!

Success (if that's your definition of success...hehe). I can confirm that
this sequence of events does indeed make the line of pixels occur (which
was followed by Variations crashing about 2 minutes later!). 

Excellent. That looks like progress to me, as it's not occurred on this
machine for about 10 days now. I've just turned off LTS and I'm still using
the machine to type this email - so it seems stable enough, and the
backdrop image was restored perfectly when I turned off LTS.

Anyway, back to business. I grabbed the section of screen around the
corruption using Paint. Examining it, revealed it looked like OvationPro
memory.

I then grabbed OvationPro using Zap's Create->Read memory.... facility and
searched through the data. Lo-and-behold I've located an exact match. Que
screenshot 2 (corrupted pixels in window on left, OvationPro memory space
in window on right).

I've uploaded both these two screenshots to my LTS test page at
http://www.vigay.com/tests/iyonixLTS.html 

pv1.zip is the first one (ie. grab of screen)
pv2.zip is the large screenshot showing the memory comparisons.

It does indeed look reproducible as Roger says.

Hope this helps.

Paul

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