[Tilesathome] Inkscape and Windows (was: stalling tiles at home: Download doesn't work)

[Brent Easton]

Hi Jürgen,

>Any idea whats wrong? Is anybody successful in running tiles at home under
>windows?

I'm not sure what your problem might be. It took me a while, but I did get t at h running successfully under windows and will soon be uploading my 2,000,000th tile.

My configuration is as follows:
 Windows XP Home SP2, 1Gb Ram, 2.4Ghz P4
 Inkscape 0.45.1
 xmlstarlet 1.0.1
 7-zip
 pngcrush 1.6.4
 ActiveState Perl 5.8.8
 GD 2.35

I had a bit fun getting GD and Perl installed and had to make a few changes minor changes to the t at h perl scripts to get things running. I sent these off to be included in SVN but I don't think they are there yet.

I have had no trouble with Inkscape.

Everything runs smoothly except for a strange problem that occurs every few days where a tile will never finish uploading and leaves a perl.exe process running in a hard loop using 100% of the CPU that cannot be killed. I have to reduce it's priority and then reboot the system to get rid of it. If i try and re-upload the tile, it then uploads correctly.

Regards,
Brent.




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Brent Easton                       
Analyst/Programmer                               
University of Western Sydney                                   
Email: b.easton at uws.edu.au