Cygwin port computer crashed

hsieh · May 31, 2006, 07:53

Hi,

Thanks a lot for doing the cygwin port! This saves me the trouble of installing Linux on my laptop.

I installed the cygwin port last night by following the instruction - very clear instructions. Although, the cygwin does not support paraFoam, but, you can use foamToVTK then, use the windows version of paraview. The only thing not supported is FoamX. I think that it might be able to re-write FoamX by Visual Basics.

I ran the interFoam tutorial case (damBreak) three times. The first two times, my computer crashed at different time step. However, the run completed without any problem the third time. I disabled Screen Saver during the third run. Could this be the problem?

Pei

gschaider · May 31, 2006, 10:22

Might well be, but I havn't got a Cygwin-Foam-installation, so I can't reproduce that.

Try if the problem is reproducable (set the screen-saver-activation time to a low value; 1 min or so).

Anyway: if it's the screensaver-cygwin-interaction I'd think that it's more a problem of cygwin than of OpenFOAM (and that's really hard to track).

BTW: which version of windows

gschaider · May 31, 2006, 10:28

Just as I sent the last reply it occured to me: You said laptop, right? Does the screen-saver send the machine into some kind of lowFrequency/PowerSaving-mode? I could imagine that Cygwin doesn't like that.

May 31, 2006, 07:53	Hi, Thanks a lot for doing	#1
hsieh Senior Member Pei-Ying Hsieh Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 317 Rep Power: 18	Hi, Thanks a lot for doing the cygwin port! This saves me the trouble of installing Linux on my laptop. I installed the cygwin port last night by following the instruction - very clear instructions. Although, the cygwin does not support paraFoam, but, you can use foamToVTK then, use the windows version of paraview. The only thing not supported is FoamX. I think that it might be able to re-write FoamX by Visual Basics. I ran the interFoam tutorial case (damBreak) three times. The first two times, my computer crashed at different time step. However, the run completed without any problem the third time. I disabled Screen Saver during the third run. Could this be the problem? Pei

May 31, 2006, 10:22	Might well be, but I havn't go	#2
gschaider Assistant Moderator Bernhard Gschaider Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 4,225 Rep Power: 51	Might well be, but I havn't got a Cygwin-Foam-installation, so I can't reproduce that. Try if the problem is reproducable (set the screen-saver-activation time to a low value; 1 min or so). Anyway: if it's the screensaver-cygwin-interaction I'd think that it's more a problem of cygwin than of OpenFOAM (and that's really hard to track). BTW: which version of windows __________________ Note: I don't use "Friend"-feature on this forum out of principle. Ah. And by the way: I'm not on Facebook either. So don't be offended if I don't accept your invitation/friend request

May 31, 2006, 10:28	Just as I sent the last reply	#3
gschaider Assistant Moderator Bernhard Gschaider Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 4,225 Rep Power: 51	Just as I sent the last reply it occured to me: You said laptop, right? Does the screen-saver send the machine into some kind of lowFrequency/PowerSaving-mode? I could imagine that Cygwin doesn't like that. __________________ Note: I don't use "Friend"-feature on this forum out of principle. Ah. And by the way: I'm not on Facebook either. So don't be offended if I don't accept your invitation/friend request

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