r-studio hangs?
Posted: Sun Feb 06, 2011 1:24 pm
I'm having trouble running R-Studio. I've got the demo loaded, it's version 5.3.132965. This is on a brand new install of Win7 32bit, with all current updates applied.
I've got 6 drives connected to a supermicro X8STE server motherboard. 2gb of RAM, i7 950 processor. It's a motherboard intel chipset sata controller. All are seagate drives. Two of the six are 2tb drives set up as a boot RAID0 (to give me a place to recover the data). The other four drives are 1.5tb units and were part of a 4 drive RAID10 array from an Areca 1230 controller in a different machine.
When I try to scan any of the 1.5tb drives the program appears to become unresponsive. I get no error messages on the screen. The program just stops and windows sees it as unresponsive. It seems to take about 7-10 minutes to reach this state. The computer is responsive otherwise, I can access other programs on the machine while R-Studio is hung. I can kill the process in the Task Manager and it cleanly exits. If I use the Analyze Wait Chain feature in the Resource Monitor it shows three threads. I can reliably repeat the hang but the time to reach it seems to vary. Thus far I've only tried it with 2 of the 4 drives and it's hung on each of them. I'm running it against a third one now and it seems to be running a bit longer (13 min now). One of the scans hung at about 7 minutes and then stayed that way for 7 hours (I started it before going to sleep and found it hung the next morning). So it doesn't appear to be a temporary hang when it happens.
There are no messages in the event logs. Nor any errors or messages shown in the R-studio window.
I have the machine set for High Performance in the Power control panel, even the display is set to never go to sleep. I have nothing else running on the machine. it just boots win7, I log in (local admin user) and start R-Studio. The scan being performed is the whole drive, Detailed view, being saved to a file, NO extra search for filetypes and only NTFS format.
I could use another version of windows if 7 is a known problem. This machine has been set up specifically to recover an array and I can reconfigure it in any way necessary. I could reinstall windows using 2003, 2008, 2008R2 or whatever would be mostly likely to work effectively.
I've got 6 drives connected to a supermicro X8STE server motherboard. 2gb of RAM, i7 950 processor. It's a motherboard intel chipset sata controller. All are seagate drives. Two of the six are 2tb drives set up as a boot RAID0 (to give me a place to recover the data). The other four drives are 1.5tb units and were part of a 4 drive RAID10 array from an Areca 1230 controller in a different machine.
When I try to scan any of the 1.5tb drives the program appears to become unresponsive. I get no error messages on the screen. The program just stops and windows sees it as unresponsive. It seems to take about 7-10 minutes to reach this state. The computer is responsive otherwise, I can access other programs on the machine while R-Studio is hung. I can kill the process in the Task Manager and it cleanly exits. If I use the Analyze Wait Chain feature in the Resource Monitor it shows three threads. I can reliably repeat the hang but the time to reach it seems to vary. Thus far I've only tried it with 2 of the 4 drives and it's hung on each of them. I'm running it against a third one now and it seems to be running a bit longer (13 min now). One of the scans hung at about 7 minutes and then stayed that way for 7 hours (I started it before going to sleep and found it hung the next morning). So it doesn't appear to be a temporary hang when it happens.
There are no messages in the event logs. Nor any errors or messages shown in the R-studio window.
I have the machine set for High Performance in the Power control panel, even the display is set to never go to sleep. I have nothing else running on the machine. it just boots win7, I log in (local admin user) and start R-Studio. The scan being performed is the whole drive, Detailed view, being saved to a file, NO extra search for filetypes and only NTFS format.
I could use another version of windows if 7 is a known problem. This machine has been set up specifically to recover an array and I can reconfigure it in any way necessary. I could reinstall windows using 2003, 2008, 2008R2 or whatever would be mostly likely to work effectively.