MDM Trouble Report for 2013 Jan 08

Telescope: 2.4m
Observer(s): John Thorstensen (Dartmoutn)
Instrument: modspec + templeton

Problem(s) Encountered:
copypasta from the observer's report:

xmis2 has been slow for the last few days and became intolerable
tonight.  I popped a terminal on hiltner and run top -- it 
showed that xmis2 was taking 95 percent of the memory!  I had to 
kill it and restart, which was itself a bit dodgy -- first
I quit the application, but it wouldn't quit, so I killed the 
window; then I tried to make a new instance, but it complained
that it couldn't get the port it needed, so I had to kill the
old instance from the command line.


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Submitted on 2013 Jan 9 [7:17:08]