How do I prevent the annoying "Waiting for RT Engine (My Engine) to respond" box from appearing?

[donmseattle]

I have a real-time application running on a PXI-8196 box and I'm talking to it from a laptop using Shared Variables. I'm monitoring the network traffic with Task Manager and it never gets above 5% on my dedicated 100 Mbps line, but I keep getting the subject popup dialog box. My application transfers a few MB of data during short bursts, but most of the time it's only polling to read some Booleans with 200 ms wait statements in the loops. Should I be using Simple TCP instead of Shared Variables to communicate and pass data?  I've read through the RT Tutorials and it's not clear which way to go. I assumed that since my network traffic was low I was OK with SV.

Any advice or pointers would be greatly appreciated.

TIA...

don

[Steven_C]

Hi Don,

I am not quite sure what pop-up box you are referring to. Would it be possible to post a screen shot of this? Thanks!

Best regards,

Steven

[donmseattle]

I don't have a screen shot handy, but it's the same box that pops up when an RT app is downloading during startup. I have since figured out that the problem was with a faulty network interface card that would periodically drop out.

Thanks for your interest.

don