I wonder if you have a sql statement that is causing a deadlock on the
SQL Server which in turn is hold the thread, which then witango would
open another thread until running out of the thread count.

Maybe you could increase tread count, due to a sql statement taking
longer than expected due to increase in data.

Just some thoughts

Ben Johansen - http://www.pcforge.com
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[mailto:owner-witango-talk@;witango.com] On Behalf Of Web Dude
Sent: Monday, October 28, 2002 12:02 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list witango-talk
Subject: Witango-Talk: HELP What the heck??

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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