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WSJT-X stops decoding after running for a some time



I am currently running WSJT-X 2.7.0~rc6 from backports on Bookworm.

For quite some time, though I've not documented over how many releases,
I have noticed that a long running WSJT-X process will get sluggish or
simply stop decoding certain minute segments.

As an example, I may have started WSJT-X yesterday some time and have
mostly been in FT8 mode with a bit of time in FT4 on 15 and 80m.  At
various points I stopped the decoder to operate voice nets, etc.  Upon
returning to FT8 on 30m a little while ago I noticed that the program
was not decoding traffic from the 00 and 30 (even) segments but was
decoding on the 15 and 45 (odd) segments.  Most of the time when I see
this happen it decodes the even and not the odd segments.

When the program gets into this state, initiating a transmission usually
results in a delay of 2 to 3 seconds before audio is sent to the radio
though PTT assertion is generally immediate.  In all cases, restarting
the program restores proper operation.

Perhaps this has to do with portions of the program getting paged out to
swap over time?  If so, it doesn't seem like the program is ever
completely returned to RAM and remains in kind of a zombie state until
it is restarted.

I suppose if I closed and opened the program each time this wouldn't be
an issue.

73, Nate

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