[Elecraft] KX3 Mac Utility - I Give Up

[NZ9E]

Joel,

I've noticed an apparent memory leak in the Mac KX3 Utility app.  After the
leak hits some critical threshold, the app crashes on me.  My apologies to
Elecraft for not yet submitting a bug report.

To check if this is your problem:  open the Apple Mac app "Activity Monitor"
and click the "System Memory" tab.  Then choose "Windowed Processes" from
the menu to make it easier to find the "Elecraft KX3 Utility" process in the
list.  Now run the KX3 Utility and start the firmware download.  Watch the
free memory (green in pie chart); if it's dropping like the gas gauge in an
SUV, and if the Real and Virtual Memory numbers for the KX3 Utility process
are rising, then you would seem to be on the right track.

My workaround:  I have 8 GB of (real) memory, which is high enough that I
don't always get into trouble.  Sometimes quitting other memory-hoggish Mac
apps helps, but mainly I download firmware into my KX3 only with a fresh
instance of the KX3 Utility.  E.g., if I download the KX3 microprocessor
code (successfully), then start downloading the DSP code without quitting
and relaunching the KX3 Utility app, it usually crashes.  So launch KX3
utility, download microprocessor code, quit KX3 utility, launch KX3 utility,
download DSP code, quit KX3 utility.

73,
Bob NZ9E


W4JBB wrote
> This being the first time I have used the new Mac KX3 Utility 
> (v1.13.4.29), I still cannot get it to go through an entire load of new 
> FW.  It gets about 1/2-way through the DSP update and quits.  I only 
> tried once, it quits at roughly the same spot as in the past.





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