Randomly Missing sensor headers during logging

[LazyArtistry]

I've noticed a rare issue that crops up when logging sensor data into a csv file. When HWinfo starts logging sensor data, the generated log file will occasionally miss some column headers. When it does happen, there will be a column at the very end with data in it but missing the header label. It happens often enough that it will periodically break my automation environment while testing GPU performance. I’ve tried fiddling with polling period and other options, but nothing seems to avoid this periodic issue.

I’ve been able to recreate the problem by just repeatedly logging sensor data into multiple files and performing a simple header count. It seems to affect the GPU headers most often.

Has anyone encountered this issue before?

 

[Martin]

This can happen when at startup some sensors were not present which appeared only later during runtime.
Unfortunately it's impossible to predict which sensors can appear later, after the header with current sensors was already written to file.
To solve this, a new header (footer) is added at the bottom of the CSV report that lists also all sensors that appeared later.

 

[LazyArtistry]

Ah, at least it is a known issue with a fix. Looks like I will adjust my parsers to read the footer information and overwrite the original 'bad' header. And thank you for the quick reply! I love the software you've created.