session saves

[smallduck]

I'm involved in the development of IOKit drivers and often end up with
semi-flaky kernel extensions installed, even on my take-home MBP (as
opposed to my test machine in the office, which frequently has *very*
flaky kernel extensions). ie. my OS hangs or crashes occasionally. In
fact, my mac is usually running until such an event, ie. a majority of
my login sessions end in unclean reboots.

Several days ago, I put MiniBatteryLogger into my login items to see
the usefulness of the data it collects & wee graphs it displays.
However I haven't looked at it until forcibly restarting this morning,
and now I see that the data from those several days of uptime is gone.

Q aimed at this app's developers: Is MiniBatteryLogger only writing
data to disk upon shutdown? This makes it almost useless for
developers like me or people with unstable machines in general. Am I
in too small a minority to count, is a change to the app's data
management not worth the effort?

- a small duck

[claudio]

On Jul 12, 7:35 pm, smallduck <jpmhous...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I'm involved in the development of IOKit drivers

cool!

> a majority of
> my login sessions end in unclean reboots.
>
> Several days ago, I put MiniBatteryLogger into my login items to see
> the usefulness of the data it collects & wee graphs it displays.
> However I haven't looked at it until forcibly restarting this morning,
> and now I see that the data from those several days of uptime is gone.
>
> Q aimed at this app's developers: Is MiniBatteryLogger only writing
> data to disk upon shutdown? This makes it almost useless for
> developers like me or people with unstable machines in general. Am I
> in too small a minority to count, is a change to the app's data
> management not worth the effort?

Let's see. MBL has an option to automatically save session data after
a wake/sleep event occurs, or when the power source has changed.

But maybe what you're asking is some kind of "timer" that periodically
saves the session data -- you will probably be always on battery
between the launch of MBL and a crash, so all data would be lost.

I'll add this to the TODO list, but I cannot guarantee that it will be
implemented. Ok?

Cheers,
Claudio