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* May 27: vacuum ~ 2e-3
* May 27: vacuum ~ 2e-3


* May 28: vacuum nearing 1e-4
* May 28: vacuum reached 1.0e-3, so not quite ready for pumping.


== CHAMP -- software ==
== CHAMP -- software ==


* May 28: FB planning to reproduce crashes/freezes from last run and check NI card.
* May 28: fixed CVS that had been erased from ctrscrut due to a HDD failure in Jan/Feb. Fixed all memory leaks on spooler and astropci reported by cppcheck, especially realloc issues. Reintroduced star info and uv info to spooler, hopefully compatible with CHARA libraries (tests TBD).
 
* May 29: FB planning to reproduce crashes/freezes from last run and check NI card.

Revision as of 05:55, 29 May 2012

Wolverine

  • May 27: Debian Lenny source packages were moved to archive.debian.org. FB updated the packages to reflect this.
  • May 27: aptitude on wolverine found more than 65535 (16bit limit) packages to update, causing a bug. FB updated the apt cache size, then updated the distribution source by source.
  • May 27: current status = we have the final versions of all Debian Lenny packages (gcc 4.3.2, python 2.5.2, pygtk 2.12.1, gtk 2.12.12)

CHAMP -- hardware

  • May 26: Larry started pumping CHAMP
  • May 27: vacuum ~ 2e-3
  • May 28: vacuum reached 1.0e-3, so not quite ready for pumping.

CHAMP -- software

  • May 28: fixed CVS that had been erased from ctrscrut due to a HDD failure in Jan/Feb. Fixed all memory leaks on spooler and astropci reported by cppcheck, especially realloc issues. Reintroduced star info and uv info to spooler, hopefully compatible with CHARA libraries (tests TBD).
  • May 29: FB planning to reproduce crashes/freezes from last run and check NI card.