Duet 2.05 memory leak?
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@kazolar How are the underruns actually reported in the M122? Is it just with the error status, or does it show in some other field? If you managed to save a copy of an M122 that shows it, that would be useful.
Ian
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@droftarts here is what an M122 report looks like with underruns. This is from my own print just now. For me, it seems the underruns are from tiny segments created by simplify3d for support structures, combined with high speeds and some amount of PA.
4/13/2020, 9:29:48 AM M122 === Diagnostics === RepRapFirmware for Duet 2 WiFi/Ethernet version 2.05.1.1-simple_dynamic_unretraction running on Duet Ethernet 1.02 or later + DueX2 Board ID: 08DGM-956GU-DJMSN-6J9D4-3SJ6K-1BNBF Used output buffers: 1 of 24 (16 max) === RTOS === Static ram: 25712 Dynamic ram: 93652 of which 0 recycled Exception stack ram used: 480 Never used ram: 11228 Tasks: NETWORK(ready,628) HEAT(blocked,1232) DUEX(suspended,160) MAIN(running,3712) IDLE(ready,160) Owned mutexes: === Platform === Last reset 23:30:20 ago, cause: power up Last software reset at 2020-04-11 22:50, reason: Stuck in spin loop, spinning module GCodes, available RAM 11048 bytes (slot 2) Software reset code 0x4043 HFSR 0x00000000 CFSR 0x00000000 ICSR 0x0041f80f BFAR 0xe000ed38 SP 0x20001f4c Task 0x5754454e Stack: 00404463 004047e4 81000000 b0000000 412a3fa5 00000000 00000000 3331bb4c 41880000 3e178897 3e1cd04f bdb7f86e 423985c3 4050ac00 3cce8f96 40a00000 4453b9c2 c0000000 40f4ffb7 20000010 00404459 000003c8 00404aa9 Error status: 0 Free file entries: 9 SD card 0 detected, interface speed: 20.0MBytes/sec SD card longest block write time: 0.0ms, max retries 0 MCU temperature: min 36.6, current 37.6, max 38.8 Supply voltage: min 23.9, current 24.6, max 25.0, under voltage events: 0, over voltage events: 0, power good: yes Driver 0: ok, SG min/max 0/1023 Driver 1: standstill, SG min/max 0/1023 Driver 2: standstill, SG min/max 0/135 Driver 3: ok, SG min/max 0/1023 Driver 4: standstill, SG min/max not available Driver 5: standstill, SG min/max not available Driver 6: standstill, SG min/max not available Date/time: 2020-04-13 09:29:42 Cache data hit count 4294967295 Slowest loop: 17.11ms; fastest: 0.07ms I2C nak errors 0, send timeouts 0, receive timeouts 0, finishTimeouts 0, resets 0 === Move === Hiccups: 0, FreeDm: 158, MinFreeDm: 117, MaxWait: 0ms Bed compensation in use: none, comp offset 0.000 === DDARing === Scheduled moves: 1295584, completed moves: 1295544, StepErrors: 0, LaErrors: 0, Underruns: 595, 0 === Heat === Bed heaters = 0 -1 -1 -1, chamberHeaters = -1 -1 Heater 0 is on, I-accum = 0.2 Heater 1 is on, I-accum = 0.5 === GCodes === Segments left: 1 Stack records: 1 allocated, 0 in use Movement lock held by null http is idle in state(s) 0 telnet is idle in state(s) 0 file is doing "G1 X-29.037 Y13.502 E0.0004" in state(s) 0 serial is idle in state(s) 0 aux is idle in state(s) 0 daemon is idle in state(s) 0 queue is idle in state(s) 0 autopause is idle in state(s) 0 Code queue is empty. === Network === Slowest loop: 15.90ms; fastest: 0.06ms Responder states: HTTP(0) HTTP(0) HTTP(0) HTTP(0) FTP(0) Telnet(0) Telnet(0) HTTP sessions: 1 of 8 Interface state 5, link 100Mbps full duplex
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@bot said in Duet 2.05 memory leak?:
=== DDARing ===
Scheduled moves: 1295584, completed moves: 1295544, StepErrors: 0, LaErrors: 0, Underruns: 595, 0Thanks, I know where to look now!
Ian
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@droftarts I think I read that the first number is a warning, the 2nd number will cause stutter or a pause if it gets bad. I can tell from switching SD cards, my gcode uploads are faster now -- hitting 700kb/sec -- almost maxing out the 100mb link -- never had over 500 before.
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@kazolar I think the first value isn't a warning, just an indication that the lookahead function couldn't do something (not sure what) with the time given. It doesn't slow down the print, but is likely not ideal. The second number is a prepare move underrun, which means that the move could not be prepared in time and so the movement must wait. This is much worse than the first one.
Also, since I'm interested in SD card performance at the moment, I noticed your last comment and must correct you somewhat, just for your info: 700 kB/s is not nearly maxing out a 100 Mbps link. 100 Mbps = 12.5 MB/s
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@bot yep, 2nd number is the one that i would hope would be something Duet would alarm about -- yep -- I got my decimal off --was thinking 10mb, i think sleeping more than 5 hours per day maybe catching up to me. What's curious though is I never saw numbers above 500kb/s transfers -- with the new sd card it was in the high 700 -- touching 800, I mean even before I had issues with the SD card -- the old one wasn't that fast to begin with.
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@dc42 -- what kind of an sd card do i need:
it's happening again:
Scheduled moves: 24643, completed moves: 24607, StepErrors: 0, LaErrors: 0, Underruns: 80, 300 -
10:42:27 AMSD write speed for 20.0Mbyte file was 2.18Mbytes/sec
10:42:18 AMM122 P104 S20
Testing SD card write speed...I printed the same file multiple times -- no issues -- now I get an error -- does it have anything to do with duet being powered on/off. Works fine when I copy over a newly sliced/copied file -- but for a file that has been other for a couple of days - - start getting underruns again
Should i send a sd card dismount command m22 i think before powering the machine off -- something is definitely getting corrupted -- i did a bunch of commands, started, canceled a print -- and a newly copied file works fine. -
Pending any other surprises -- I now am sending M22 before the printer is powered off (unless it's a an unexpected shutdown) -- with that enabled, I have not had any more underrun problems.
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@dc42 totally reproducible now -- printed fine with the same file for 2 days, 3rd day after power up -- 30 minutes in underruns . Stopped it, didn't reset, didn't power off, deleted the file, uploaded the exact same file -- now no underruns, working fine. I guess I can keep doing this procedure, but why are "old" files now going stale on the sd card somehow?
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@kazolar And this is on 2.05? Or 2.02?
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@kazolar I can't see how anything in the firmware is doing this. It doesn't rewrite the file to the card, except if you run simulation (it appends the simulation time to the gcode file). My guess is that the SD card is doing some form of wear levelling, but causing issues doing it. What exact card (make and model) is this. I know you swapped to a new card from the one that was causing problems originally, but have you tried yet another?
Ian
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I had the problem originally with the card that came with the duet2, like 3 years ago, so I figured it must be time to swap. I had the same issue with amplim brand, then with sp brand. These have worked perfectly fine in pis. Both cards are rated class 10
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Also the problem is the same with each version. If I copy a fresh file, it works fine for a couple of days and 2 power cycles, then like clockwork the next print 30 minutes it starts to stutter, but I'm sure underruns were just piling up. I checked and the 2nd under run number was at 300, so it was pretty bad.
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It certainly sounds like an issue with the SD card. Do you have logging enabled (M929)? That writes to the SD card at the start and end of each print, and when a significant event occurs. Writing to the log file could trigger the wear levelling process that Ian mentioned.
The only other possibility I can think of is a very obscure bug in the FatFs file system library.
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I don't have any specific logging enabled. Don't think anything writes to the sd card outside of a pause. Even issuing an m22 prior to shutdown didn't prevent it from happening. So the card was untouched, and the following power up... underruns and stuttering, then delete the gcode file upload it fresh and - perfect print, actually as I dial in the z offset, it's getting better each time...so the only file I update with some regularity it config.g
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@kazolar Is the soldering on the back of the SD socket okay? Maybe a pin is floating very occasionally. See https://duet3d.dozuki.com/Wiki/SD_Card#Section_SD_card_Socket for a poorly soldered one.
Ian
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@droftarts I'll check. Seems curious that it would be so predictable and odd failure. I have the duex5 under the duet in a case so it's gonna be hard to see. I was able to run off enough shields to get 150 out for today's donation drop to go to a neighboring towns health department, and we have more need in local nursing homes, so I'll be running it today to get more shields out. I'll probably just re-upload the file fresh to not tempt fate. Is it worthwhile to get like a brand name card, like SanDisk or something? The cards I got were in a 5 pack on Amazon awhile back, but we're very highly rated. Is the size a problem. I'm using 16gb cards.
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@kazolar It's a strange problem, indeed! Yes, up to 32GB is fine. See specification (and after for formatting details) here: https://duet3d.dozuki.com/Wiki/SD_Card#Section_Specification
I'd probably recommend getting name-brand (Kingston, SanDisk) cards, they're usually more reliable than no-name ones.
Ian
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@kazolar said in Duet 2.05 memory leak?:
what kind of an sd card do i need:
Just try different card. I have new, original kingston's that would not at all work in rpi but work ok in opi, I have brand new original kingston's that behave weird in number of devices, I had issues with sandisk in duet2eth (not the one that died that was some PRC noname card, the sandisk I added later on) now with some Toshiba in one duet2eth and everything works ok and HAMA (the el cheapo 32G) and it all works ok. Not sure what's the deal with them, they all work properly in PC in card reader but in embedded systems some work and some don't. I stopped trying to find a "reason" and just change cards till I find one that works. So far never had issues with Toshiba's anywhere, most ugly is the RPI, it fails to work with number of cards, best of all is opi, it kinda works with anything you throw in it. Duet so far didn't like 2 different 4G Kingston and one 1G sandisk.
I didn't have stuttering btw, I had "garbage not valid G-code", and when you download the file from the duet it is garbage, and I had "weird moves" (middle of the print head moves to a weird position). Took me a while to suspect SD card first time but when the weird moves started SD card was the first step to check
One thing that might be taken from this, RPI is the wors embedded system I tested ever wrt SD cards so if a SD works on RPI it will most probably work everywhere. There is a list of tested SD cards with RPI https://elinux.org/RPi_SD_cards so if the card is there on the list and works ok with rpi it is usually a safe bet