[exe]Guardian Angel Discussion

[Bill Brower]

Thanks!

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[Michael McSharry]

I looked into this and found a situation where the window title was not sufficiently unique and different process id's were found on calls subsequent to the first. I changed the internal logic to retain the PID once discovered and my tests show it to be working reliably on a homeseer restart.

What I also noticed is that when the message to shutdown is delivered to homeseer the window closes down, but the process continues to run. GA does handle this in its normal restart sequence.

John Wilson asked me to add another feature to GA. I'll repost when I get it done.

[Bill Brower]

QUOTE - "From what I know, if your mouse and keyboard freeze hard, it is a hardware issue, small chance it is a driver issue, but rarely a software issue..."

ADD ON - "...and when Guardian Angel ver 1.1 trips on my computer..."

NOTE : Ran the test event:

sub main()

'hs.launch hs.GetAppPath & "\GuardianAngel.exe","homeseer|20|10"

hs.launch hs.GetAppPath & "\GuardianAngel.exe","homeseer|20|10|homeseer|c:\Program Files\Homeseer\Homeseer.exe|below_normal"

for i = 1 to 20
hs.writelog "wait",i
hs.waitsecs 1
next

end sub

and it locked hard.

9/11/2003 2:28:55 PM Monitor Process homeseer Utilization at 20% for 10 seconds
9/11/2003 2:28:55 PM When detected shutdown homeseer
9/11/2003 2:28:55 PM Then execute c:\Program Files\Homeseer\Homeseer.exe at below_normal priority
9/11/2003 2:28:58 PM Detected 24.15 % for homeseer
9/11/2003 2:28:58 PM Closing homeseer

My system specs are below.
I was running XP PRO Remote Desktop at the time (?)

Thanks for trying, all your other things run great for me and I appreciate what you do for us less talented types.

Cheers! Bill

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[This message was edited by William Brower on Mon, 22 September 2003 at 09:50 PM.]

so are you saying that as GA tries to shut things down, that's when it locks up because the particular thing shutting down is messing up?
I am trying to understand what's going on here. I would most like to fix the offender rather than have GA kill everything.

How does GA shut stuff down? Can I mimic its approach and just down stuff in the app window.

Is there a wrong way to start GA? I am using the approach of starting it in a script from an event.

[Michael McSharry]

GA operates at the highest priority level which is above the keyboard. When it is monitoring the logic is pretty basic so I would be surprised if there is a problem there. If you try to shutdown a specific process, then problems can occur since the process is malfunctioning and whatever it is related to is also subject. Restart of windows should be a safe action. That is how I have it configured if it sees homeseer is locked. I've run it only on W2K.

You are welcome to the VB source if you want to investigate your situation.

The only time my machine has ever locked up tight is when GA had calculated that it needed to restart the PC and maybe started that process.

I am not quite sure this happens but I can't check it out as the machine is totally locked up.

SteveP

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[Bill Brower]

From what I know, if your mouse and keyboard freeze hard, it is a hardware issue, small chance it is a driver issue, but rarely a software issue...

Bill

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when it trips?

I have been trying to use it but it locks up the machine tight. No three finger, no mouse, nothing.

SteveP

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Michael: Thanks for sharing this. An extremely good job documenting and your included script/utility URL reference is great too.

This is a nice add on!

- Chris

[Michael McSharry]

Discussion for Library entry Guardian Angel

<pre class="ip-ubbcode-code-pre">7/27/2002 12:54:58 PM Monitor Process homeseer Utilization at 20% for 10 seconds
7/27/2002 12:54:58 PM When detected shutdown homeseer
7/27/2002 12:54:58 PM Then execute c:\Program Files\Homeseer\Homeseer.exe at below_normal priority
7/27/2002 12:55:01 PM Detected 24.85 % for homeseer
7/27/2002 12:55:01 PM Closing homeseer
7/27/2002 12:55:16 PM Terminating because close message did not stop homeseer
</pre>