Witango-Talk: HELP What the heck??

[Web Dude]

Okay...

2 production servers.

Server 1
NT 4.0
SP 6a
IIS 4
Witango 2000 sp1
40 sites
1 gig RAM
All security updates in place

Server 2
NT 4.0
SP 6a
SQL 7.0
1 gig RAM
All security updates in place.

Last Friday I was on server 2 just surfing when suddenly the computer pretty much froze. I went to the task manager (which took forever) and noticed the cpu being hogged by sqlserver.exe. I went to server 1 and noticed in task manager(which also took forever) that the witango server was hogging all the cpu. I managed to stop the witango server and immediately the cpu was freed. I restarted the witango server and about 15 minutes later, everything froze again on both servers. I haven't coded in the past week, so I don't think there is a coding problem in witango. Most of the sites have been up and running for the past 2 years, some have been up for 4 years or more.

BUT suddenly I am having all sorts of problems.

It seems the servers (both) are freezing 8 to 10 times a day. There are no email servers or email clients on these servers, so I don't think I have a virus (but not sure). I have used netstat extensively to see if I can find a wierd connection.

I did notice however, that microsft transaction server seemed to have been started at about the time that I started getting these freezes. Not sure if this is related or not. I did reboot both machines several times that day. I am pretty sure that MSDTS is installed by default, even though I do not use it.

I have looked at configuration files for witango, and all seems to be the way I left them. I have turned on logging to see if I can catch an offending taf file being executed, but it seems that the freezes are random. I have noticed, however, that whenever a freeze happens, I seem to get anywhere from 10 to 30 system reapers in the log file. Not sure if this is related.

I have since shut down microsoft transaction server on server 1 (not even sure that I need it), but left it up on server 2.

I need to know:
Do I need the transaction server?
Any other ways of trying to figure this out (it is driving me nuts)?
Anything I should be looking for in the logs?
Any Suggestions at all?



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