Running a program non stop over night

[Kammamuri]

HI again!

I'm running my autoit program (in truth 2 programs, if one stops/gets an error gets launched again by the other) on my laptop, a Sony Vaio FW. The programs work fine during the day but for some reason at night the computer goes nuts. Yesterday it was windows update which was scheduled for 3 am and for some reason it went to sleep after that, so the program stopped at 3 am and in the morning i found the pc sleeping. So i turned windows update off.

This morning the pc was still working but the screen was frozen on a page of about 3 am! (the last verified activity, from a txt file which gets modified by the program, is at 2:52 am) so i guess something happened again at about 3 am. when i managed to get  the screen refreshed i saw the program was still running (but had done nothing from 3am up to 7 am). Ah and the ErrorLog (a txt file that saves the errrors my main program encounters) was empty!

Any idea what might be the problem??

Also, I've noticed that IExplorer (the program interacts with it) becomes very slow after it has run for maybe an hour, while GoogleCrome and Firefox don't get this lag issue. I've even thought  to make the program relaunch IE periodically .. ideas to fix this?

Thanks in advance!

[orbs]

if the program runs during daytime, i doubt you'll find it is the cause of your troubles.

how i would proceed:

1) check what Windows Event Log has to say.

2) apply some cleanup methods to your pc, like CCleaner.

[water]

It's very hard if not impossible to help without having seen your code!

[Melba23]

Kammamuri,

My crystal ball is being repolished at the moment, thus it would help if you posted the scripts so we can look at them. We might then be able to come up with some sensible suggestions - at the moment I am tending towards the idea of your cat pressing the wrong key overnight.

M23

P.S. When you post code please use Code tags - see here how to do it. - then you get a small scrolling codebox and syntax colouring.

[orbs]

i second Melba23's idea about the cat.

hey, i witnessed it once myself - the cat actually posted "neiu" on facebook! i guess the NSA are on our tracks now.

[Kammamuri]

Where can i find the "Windows event log"? searching that name in the pc gives only a bunch of txt files.

unfortunately no cat (or dog) is involved .. I'll try to clean the pc and to run the program on another machine

the parent program is:

HotKeySet("{ESC}", "Terminate")

Local $line

Local $ErrorLog = FileOpen("ErrorLog.txt",2)
FileClose($ErrorLog)

While 1

   If ProcessExists("TheBeast v0.75.exe") = 0 Then
      If ProcessExists("iexplore.exe") Then ProcessClose("iexplore.exe")
      Local $foo = Run('C:\Users\....\TheBeast v0.83.exe /ErrorStdOut', "", @SW_HIDE, $STDERR_CHILD + $STDOUT_CHILD)
   EndIf

   While 1
      $line = StdoutRead($foo)
      If @error Then ExitLoop
      Local $ErrorLog = FileOpen("ErrorLog.txt",1)
      FileWrite($ErrorLog, $line)
      FileClose($ErrorLog)
   WEnd

   Sleep(200)
WEnd

;Terminate
Func Terminate()
   Exit 0
EndFunc

the child one now is over 3k lines long and i can't post it here

basically what it does is:

-browse to a website

-refreshes some information that it has about the website

-then checks the time every second (since it uses the time of the website it has to do a _iebodyreadhtml and some stringregexp every second)

-if the time is right it does some actions, mainly _ieaction($oIE, "click"), some getobjects functions and formobjectsetvalue

i don't think there is nothing wrong here, and even if there was something it would just crash and get launched again

also, usually i use the IE window as "visible" so that i can see what the program is doing, but i can put it to "invisible" easily

[water]

Run "eventvwr".

[water]

Can you please tell us what "TheBeast v0.75.exe" is?

[Kammamuri]

ops didn't change the name of the program there!! well, that might be a problem! .. it's just  the name of the child program

edit: still the child program didn't crash so that line (with the wrong name) should not have been run

Edited July 4, 2013 by Kammamuri

[Melba23]

Kammamuri,

 

the child one now is over 3k lines long and i can't post it here

That and the use of an executable called "TheBeast" (which makes for some interesting Googling) are not giving me a warm fuzzy feeling. You have already been pointed to the Forum rules - are you sure this is legal?

And I have now seen your response to water - it seems it is not. Thread closed.

That is 2 strikes - do NOT go for a third.

M23