I have been pesting against CCS since day one. Here is why.
These comments all apply two v5.3 under Win7. v5.2 was behaving quite the same though.
Everytime a debug session is mentioned, it is on a F28335 DSP.
Hope this report will help you improve your tool...
--- PROCESS
ccstudio.exe often stays in memory after exiting the application. It happens at least 1 time out of 4. I noticed is it is NOT related to the way CCS closes (crash or clean exit).
There must be a lot of memory leaks in there too. From time to time (say, at least once a day), I can spot ccstudio.exe at more than 1GB of memory usage. I think it happens only if I have started a few debug sessions that display graphs. It may give you a clue...
When it happens, a clean exit never leads to the proper killing of the process. I need to manually kill it. Please notice that I have two collegues experiencing that problem with the same version under Win7 also.
--- STARTUP
No matter if CCS closes cleanly or not, there is popup saying that it did not close properly.
-- HANG
Every now and then, when a debug session is underway, CCS simply hangs. We have been experiencing that since day 1 on CCS 5.2 and 5.3 .
Yesterday, using Win7 ressource monitor "analyze wait chain" tool revealed two threads waiting for Network I/O operation completion. I was not connected to any network. Half the time, I am connected to a network but do experience hangs. I did not check the wait chain in that situation. I will, as soon as I can. Most probably the next time I use CCS, unfortunately...
--- GRAPH TOOL
The graph tool is very useful. That is, when it works.
Sometimes, from one debug session to another, the menu entrie in "Tool-Graph" ar all greyed out. Usually, stopping the debug session and starting it again brings back the entries. It happened twice over 2 months where for about 2 days, entries where grayed out exactly one time out of two debug sessions. Then is started working "well" again.
Restarting code composer does not appear to help in reducing the occurence of that problem.
Also, I have now reached a point with one setup where I can't graph more than one Single Time curve (did not try other graphs) . The window to select graph properties blinks with no result on the first OK button click. The second click closes the window but does not bring a new graph. Restarting CCS AND my computer did not help. Moreover, the graph window sometimes duplicate 5 times some of its toolbar icons. Clicking on it hangs CCS (waiting for network I/o, see above). I may get you a snapshot if you want.
Enjoy...
