Re: [NTLK] Heap Issues on Spirit

From: Norman Palardy (palardyn_at_shaw.ca)
Date: Tue Feb 03 2004 - 09:55:13 PST


On Feb 3, 2004, at 10:48 AM, Peter H. Coffin wrote:

> The more things change, the more things stay the same.
>
> An online article,
> http://spaceflightnow.com/mars/mera/040126spirit.html
> contains this statement:
>
> "Spirit bogged down because it didn't have enough random access
> memory, or RAM, to handle the current amount of files in the flash --
> including data recorded during its cruise from Earth to Mars and the
> 18 days of operations on the red planet's surface"
>
> Sounds exactly like the kind of thing that a 120-owner faces on a daily
> basis....

Yeah, but how many 120 owners could restart & recover a few million
miles away ?

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